Johann Gottfried Schädel

Johann Gottfried Schaedel (German: Johann Gottfried Schädel) is an architect of Holy Roman Empire who moved to Muscovy in 1710s.

Schaedel was born in 1680 in Wandesbek, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (since the 1937 Greater Hamburg Act part of Hamburg).

In 1713, Schaedel along with his family was invited by the Muscovite Prince Alexander Menshikov to Saint Petersburg after singing a contract for 400 Reichsthaler (384 rubles). After the political persecutions against Menshikov, Schaedel moved to Moscow where he worked along with the French architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.

In 1731, on invitation of the Kiev Archbishop Rafail Zaborovsky, Schaedel moved to Kiev where he created the great belltowers of Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Sophia Cathedral, the Klov Palace and others creations.

Since 1744, Schaedel was not receiving his salary and died very poor in Kiev, Cossack Hetmanate in 1752.

In 1995, the Ukrainian film director Valentyn Sokolovsky created a documentary on Schaedel at the National Television Company of Ukraine.

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