sentences:  His own early designs, like the completed Annenhof palace in Lefortovo, did not survive (they burnt down in the Fire of 1812 or otherwise perished before the invention of photography).Blank's career peaked in 1760s, in the reign of Catherine II.He successfully managed the architectural part of Catherine's coronation in Moscow; the new empress commissioned him to build church of St. Catherine in Zamoskvorechye.