Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood (Russian: Владимир Осипович Шервуд, also spelled Shervud, August 30, 1832 – July 27, 1897) was a Russian architect who worked in Moscow. He was an Eclectics and Russian Revival practitioner, author of the State Historical Museum in Moscow. He was the son of Joseph Sherwood, an Anglo-Russian engineer hired to build canals in Russia whose father William Sherwood, a Catholic cotton machine engineer who had come to Russia in 1800. Joseph died when Vladimir was five years old - his uncle John Sherwood was an influential lieutenant in the Tsar Alexander I's service. Vladimir Osipovich became one of the most visible architects of the Alexander III version of Russian Revival, also noted for his Plevna Chapel and Nikolay Pirogov memorial in Moscow.
He was the father of:
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood (Владимир Владимирович Шервуд, May 17, 1867 – June 18, 1930), an Art Nouveau and Neoclassical Revival architect;
- Sergei Vladimirovich Sherwood (Сергей Владимирович Шервуд, December 13, 1858 – August 29, 1899), also an architect; and
- Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood (Леонид Владимирович Шервуд, 1871–1954), a sculptor based in Saint Petersburg, a master of socialist realism.
He was the grandfather of artist Vladimir Favorsky the son of his daughter Olga Sherwood.
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