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==Life and career==
Rusca was apprenticed to [[Georg Veldten]] and [[Giacomo Quarenghi]], then went on to a successful career on his own. In 1783 he arrived in St. Petersburg, worked as a master mason to [[Yury Felten]], [[Vincenzo Brenna]] and [[Giacomo Quarenghi]] and by 1790, had set up as an independent architect. By 1802, he had been appointed to the position of court architect.<ref>"Luigi Rusca: Biography" Saint Petersburg Famous People, Online http://www.saint-petersburg.com/famous-people/luigi-rusca/</ref> Rusca's arrival in Saint Petersburg coincided with a period of great demand for Roccoco and Neoclassical designs with a Western aesthetic. Rusca's time in Saint Petersburg was very productive as he worked on more than 50 buildings throughout Russia and
In around 1833, while Rusca's team were working in [[Saint Petersburg]], they employed a young Swiss-Italian architect, [[Fossati brothers|Gaspari Fossati]], also from Ticino, who in 1837, married Rusca's daughter.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20121025195421/http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=4955 "Gaspare Fossati di Morcote and his Brother Giuseppe," in ''Environmental Design: Presence of Italy in the Architecture of the Islamic Meditterranean,''by G. Goodwin]</ref> Gaspare was subsequently appointed as the court architect in [[Istanbul]]. He recruited Rusca's son, (Gaspari's brother-in-law), Alessandro Rusca, along with Gaspari's own younger brother to become part of his team. They set sail from Odessa, arriving in Constantinople on 20 March, 1837 where they would remain for just over 20 years, and would enjoy a distinguished career.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025195421/http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=4955 "Gaspare Fossati di Morcote and his Brother Giuseppe," in ''Environmental Design: Presence of Italy in the Architecture of the Islamic Meditterranean,''by G. Goodwin]</ref>
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