High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Andrei Ivanovich Stakenschneider (Андрей Иванович Штакеншнейдер) (1802–1865), also spelled Stackenschneider and Stuckenschneider, was a Russian architect. His eclectic approach and competence in period styles is manifest in ten palaces built to his design in St. Petersburg. He is often credited for turning Russian architecture from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.