Vladimir Sherwood

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State Historical Museum, as seen from Red Square, by Vladimir Sherwood (Senior)

Vladimir Sherwood (Russian: Владимир Шервуд, also spelled Shervud) is a name of two related Russian architects who worked in Moscow:

• Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood (Владимир Осипович Шервуд, August 30, 1832 - July 27, 1897) - Eclectics and Russian Revival practitioner, author of State Historical Museum in Moscow. He was the son of Joseph Sherwood, an English engineer hired to build canals in Russia; father died when Vladimir was five years old. Vladimir Osipovich became one of the most visible architects of Alexander III version of Russian Revival, also noted for his Siege of Pleven and Nikolay Pirogov memorials in Moscow.

He was the father of:

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood (Владимир Владимирович Шервуд, May 17, 1867 - June 18, 1930) - Art Nouveau and Neoclassical Revival practitioner, house architect of Bromley Steel Works and Moscow Merchant Society, notable for many rental apartment buildings (доходные дома) of 1899-1915 and the building at 4, Staraya Square that housed Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union headquarters and became the symbol of Party apparatus.

• Sergei Vladimirovich Sherwood (Сергей Владимирович Шервуд, Decemver 13, 1858 - August 29, 1899), was also an architect.

• Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood (Леонид Владимирович Шервуд, 1871 - 1954) was a sculptor based in Saint Petersburg, a master of socialist realism.

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