The village produced a number of architects who emigrated to other countries for work, including Domenico Trezzini and members of the De Marchi and Donati families.
Domenico Scarlatti | Domenico Modugno | Domenico Ghirlandaio | Giovanni Domenico Cassini | Domenico Trezzini | Domenico Montagnana | San Domenico | Domenico Quaglio the Younger | Domenico Fontana | Domenico Fioravanti | Domenico Fetti | Domenico Fancelli | Gian Domenico Romagnosi | Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi | Domenico Starnone | Domenico Siniscalco | Domenico Raccuglia | Domenico Paolella | Domenico Comparetti | Domenico Caruso | ''The Adoration of the Magi'' by Domenico Ghirlandaio | San Domenico Maggiore | Gothic clothed in Renaissance detail: Domenico's Église Saint-Eustache, Paris | Giovanni Domenico Santorini | Giovanni Domenico Mansi | Giovanni Domenico Ferretti | Francesco Domenico Chiarello | Domenico Veneziano | Domenico Tempio | Domenico Scarlatti |
The church was initially built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl.
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Domenico Trezzini, subordinate to Zarudny, was placed in charge of European craftsmen (of Fontana, Rusco, Ferrara and other Ticino families) but after half a year was dispatched to Saint Petersburg.
Domenico Giovanni Trezzini (1670, Astano - 1734 Saint Petersburg), also russified to Andrey Yakimovich Trezin or Andrey Petrovich Trezin, was the first Ticino architect to settle in Russia, notable for development of Petrine Baroque and building Saint Petersburg's first stone structures.