Ivanov, Timofey Ivanovich

Timofey Ivanov was born in 1729 in the family of a coin man ^[1] . Since 1745, he became a student at the St. Petersburg Mint ^[2] . Due to the lack of mentors and medalists of the mint, the Scot Benjamin Scott arrived in St. Petersburg in 1751, Ivanov was appointed his ward. Timothy’s talent was noticed, and he was sent to the drawing class of the Academy of Sciences. Since 1762, Timofei Ivanov became the medalist of the St. Petersburg Mint . After receiving an academic education and adopting the experience of foreign colleagues working in the mint, Ivanov began to create works of authorship. He was entrusted with the development of a new profile portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna for coins, before that the portraits of the Empress for stamps were created by Benjamin Scott and Jacques-Antoine Dacier . As a result, Ivanov created a new portrait of the empress, adorning the obverse of the silver ruble ruins of 1757-1761 ^[1] . Timofey Ivanovich Ivanov worked remained a mint medalist until 1800. He died in 1803 ^[2] .

Medals authored by T. I. Ivanov:

• Medal " For the victory over the Prussians at Frankfurt on the Oder " (1759) ^[3]
• Obverse of the medal " In memory of the coronation of Empress Catherine II " (1762) ^[4]
• Obverse of the table medal “On the Establishment of an Educational Home” (1763) ^[5]
• Commemorative medal "On the establishment of a working coin" (1763)
• Medal “On the improvement of coinage” (1765) ^[6]
• Table medal "In memory of the court carousel" (1766) ^[7]
• The obverse of the commemorative medal “For permission to transport bread to St. Petersburg from Livonia and Estonia ” (1766) ^[8]
• Medal "On the foundation of St. Isaac's Cathedral " (1768) ^[9]
• Medal "For Awards in the Free Economic Society " (1768) ^[10]
• Medal “For the vaccination of smallpox ” (1768) ^[11]
• Medal " For the victory at Cahul " (1770) ^[12]
• Medal “On the Renewal of the Kremlin Palace” (1773) ^[13]
• Copy of the commemorative medal “On the Establishment of Provinces” (1775) ^[14]
• Medal "On Citizenship of Georgia" (1783) ^[15]
• Medal “On the annexation of Crimea” (1783) ^[16]
• Medal "For an award from the Russian Academy" (1783) ^[17]
• Medal "On the provision of free trade to cities: Feodosia , Kherson and Sevastopol " (1783) ^[18]
• Table medal “On the right of ownership” (1790) ^[19]

Ivanov is the author of 1757-1761 ruble stamps, he also owns the stamps of gold and silver coins of 1762-1796 of all merits. Most of Timofey Ivanov's stamps are marked with the letters “TI”, “TI” or “TIMOѲEI ∙ I ∙ F” ^[3] .

• Obverse and reverse history / [Ed. col .: A.V. Mityaeva and others]. - M .: International Numismatic Club , 2016 .-- 216 p. - ISBN 978-5-9906902-6-4 .
• The second and third issues // Collection of Russian medals. - SPb. : Printing house of the expedition of procurement of government securities, 1841. - 60 p.
• Gold coins in the history of the Romanov dynasty. Exhibition catalog. International Numismatic Club. - M .: Lingua-F, 2017 .-- 432 p. - ISBN 978-5-91477-038-6 .
• Ivanov, Timofey Ivanovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary . - SPb. : Printing House of the Main Directorate of Departments, 1897. - T. 8 (Ibak - Klyucharyov). - S. 33. - 756 p.
• Petrunin, Yu. P. Timofei Ivanov - master of synthesis in medal art (neopr.) . National Electronic Numismatic Archive. Date of appeal October 13, 2018.