Russian sculptor, Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years. His first drawings were made when he was 4 years old. At the age of nine he went to the foster care of his rich and influential uncle, Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy. A year later, he entered the Jesuit college of Gavriil Gruber in Polotsk. From 1798 to 1802 Fyodor Petrovich was educated in the Naval Cadet Corps. After finishing he continued his education under the direction of famous scientists. In this time, without any supervision he painted still lives, portraits and landscapes. After his father showed him a cameo depicting Napoleon, he started to learn the art of the medallist. He visited the Imperial Academy of Arts classes of plastic arts. From 1810 he worked in the Department of the Mint and became the founder of medal working in Russia. His medallions acquired wide reputation not only in Russia, but also abroad. He was elected a member of almost all the European academies of fine arts. In 1816 he became involved in freemasonry, more lately participated in the organization of the so-called "Lancasterian schools", the purpose of which was the propagation of literacy.
Russian sculptor, Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years. His first drawings were made when he was 4 years old. At the age of nine he went to the foster care of his rich and influential uncle, Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy. A year later, he entered the Jesuit college of Gavriil Gruber in Polotsk. From 1798 to 1802 Fyodor Petrovich was educated in the Naval Cadet Corps. After finishing he continued his education under the direction of famous scientists. In this time, without any supervision he painted still lives, portraits and landscapes. After his father showed him a cameo depicting Napoleon, he started to learn the art of the medallist. He visited the Imperial Academy of Arts classes of plastic arts. From 1810 he worked in the Department of the Mint and became the founder of medal working in Russia. His medallions acquired wide reputation not only in Russia, but also abroad. He was elected a member of almost all the European academies of fine arts. In 1816 he became involved in freemasonry, more lately participated in the organization of the so-called "Lancasterian schools", the purpose of which was the propagation of literacy.
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