Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood or Shervud (Russian: Леони́д Влади́мирович Ше́рвуд; 28 April 1871 – 28 August 1954) was a Russian sculptor and architect.
Biography
Sherwood was born in Moscow. He was of English descent, his grandfather Joseph Sherwood having been an English engineer who emigrated to Russia. His father was the architect Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood and his brother was the architect Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood.
Sherwood was one of the first sculptors to be involved in monumental Soviet sculpture after the Revolution of 1917 and was responsible for many official busts and monumental statues. He was also the architect of the Swallow's Nest, a decorative castle in the Crimea.
Sherwood, Leonid V. (1937). Путь скульптора [The Path of the Sculptor] (in Russian). Leningrad, Moscow: Iskusstvo. OCLC1246547078.
Sherwood, Leonid V.; et al. (2021). Sherwood, Viktoriya L. (ed.). Леонид Шервуд. Путь скульптора (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: St. Petersburg Union of Writers. ISBN978-5-4311-0238-7. OCLC1288456521.