In the summer of 1816, Montferrand landed in St. Petersburg, carrying a recommendation letter from Abraham-Louis Breguet.
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His designs for the Moscow Manege (1825) and Moscow fountains (1823) were also abandoned; these projects were completed by Joseph Bové and Ivan Vitali.
The first wooden bridge on the site was designed by the French architect Auguste de Montferrand; it was inaugurated in 1834.
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