David Grimm (architect)

David Ivanovich Grimm (Russian: Дави́д Ива́нович Гримм; 3 April [O.S. 22 March] 1823 – 21 November [O.S. 9 November] 1898) was a Russian architect, educator and historian of art specialising in the Byzantine Empire, Georgia and Armenia. Grimm belonged to the second generation of Russian neo-Byzantine architects and was the author of Orthodox cathedrals in Tbilisi, Chersonesos and smaller churches in Russia and Western Europe. Grimm was a long-term professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts and chaired its department of architecture in 1887–1892.