(1726 - 1772).
Adopted in 1742, to serve in the Moscow court administration "architecture student", in 1754 produced a non-commissioned architects and acted as assistant to Count Rastrelli. This pore is closer
Kokorinov with I.I. Shuvalov, for whom he built a luxurious house in Petrograd (now Ministry of Justice). Shuvalov, on the establishment of the Academy of Fine Arts, made
Kokorinov his closest collaborator for its design and management. In 1760
Kokorinov appointed inspector, then director of the Academy, with almost unlimited power. Using credible successor Shuvalov, . Betsky, .
Kokorinov brought order to the academy and classes in all parts of its economy, . gave her benefits, . necessary for normal development, . and aroused interest in it, not only in the highest range, . but in the middle layers of Russian society,
. In 1764 he began construction of the building plan in the Academy. de la Motte, in what some parts of the plan drawn up by himself. From 1769, he was rector of the Academy. Under the influence of rising up against
Kokorinov intrigue, Betsky has ceased to treat him with the same trust and appointed several committees to verify the position of the Academy of economic affairs, especially as the cost of construction of academic buildings. The auditors did not find in the regulations
Kokorinov nothing improper or inappropriate, . except for some negligence, . the formal side, . managed accounts, . but
Kokorinov began to think, . ramble and in a fit of melancholy hung himself in the attic of his house,
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