Pyotr Yeropkin

Pyotr Mikhailovich Yeropkin was a Russian architect credited with replanning Saint Petersburg after Peter the Great's death. It was Yeropkin who designed the famous Trident of the Nevsky, Voznesensky, and Gorokhovaya thoroughfares as the city's structural center. He demanded that "no obstacle to the view of the Admiralty spire should be permitted" and insisted on the primacy of the embankments.