Quoting Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]>:

>Richard Todd shatters my illusions about the Great Gate of Kiev:
>
>>In fact, the gate was never built.
>
>A great pity.  This prompts the question of whether Hartmann's painting
>worked from the plans or purely his imagination.

Hartmann was an architect and, if I understand correctly, the painting
we have now was a kind of proposal.  I don't think the project ever got
to the stage of drawings being made.

Richard Todd