Yury Felten

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Cast-iron grille of the Summer Garden in St Petersburg

Yury Matveyevich Felten (Russian: Ю́рий Матве́евич Фе́льтен, native name Georg Friedrich Veldten) (1730 — 1801) was a court architect to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Felten was born to a family of immigrants to Russia.

Felten worked on Palace Square in St. Petersburg, the Church of Saint John at Chesme Palace, and the Zubov wing of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo. It may be argued that his best-known work is not a building but an iron-cast grille of the Summer Garden (1783).