William Hastie (Russian: Василий Иванович Гесте; c.1753 – June 4, 1832) was a Russian architect, civil engineer and town planner of Scottish descent. His name is also transliterated back from Russian as William Heste or, seldom, Vasily Heste. Because of his influence at court Heste's designs for buildings and whole towns can be seen throughout Russia.
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1763 Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
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4 June 1832 (aged 68) Tsarskoye Selo, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pushkin, Saint Petersburg , Russia)
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