Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood
V. V. Sherwood, ca. 1900s
Born	(1867-05-17)May 17, 1867 Moscow
Died	June 18, 1930(1930-06-18) (aged 63) Moscow
Nationality	Russian Empire Soviet Union (inactive)
Occupation	Architect
Practice	Moscow Merchant Society Own practice
Buildings	Titov building 12-14 Novokuznetskaya Street 7-7 Malaya Polyanka Street (all in Moscow)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Шервуд, also spelled Shervud, May 17, 1867 — June 18, 1930), was a Russian architect who worked in Moscow in 1895-1914 in Art Nouveau style and modernized classics variant of Russian neoclassical revival that predated modernist architecture of the 1920s.

Vladimir Sherwood, junior, was the son of Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood (Владимир Осипович Шервуд, 1832 — 1897), architect of the State Historical Museum in Red Square. His brother Sergei Vladimirovich Sherwood (1858 — 1899) also became an architect but died prematurely; another brother, Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood (1871 — 1954) became a sculptor based in Saint Petersburg.

Vladimir Sherwood graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1895, and was employed first as the house architect of Bromley Brothers Steel Works (1898 — 1903) (It is a common misconception that the Bromley Steels Works refers to Bromley the place but it is in fact Bromley Bros., British steel makers who operated in Imperial Russia and provided the boilers for the 1896 Nizhni-Novgorod Fair - pg44 The Engineer July 10th 1896) and by the Moscow Merchant Society — a business consortium responsible for redevelopment of Kitai-Gorod and Central Squares of Moscow (1903 — 1910). Sherwood is credited with work on the new master plan for Kitai-gorod, partially executed before World War I, although exact extent of his input has not been reliably studied.