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Портрет князя H. П. Трубецкого (1826) / Portrait of Prince Nikita Petrovich Trubetskoy (1826)

"Prince Nikita Petrovich Troubetzkoy (1804-1855) - half-brother of the Decembrists C. Trubetskoy and P. Trubetskoy, known for classic portrait Orestes Kiprensky (1826).

During his life he held a number of positions is not the most important: the retired lieutenant, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the gentleman of the bedchamber, the actual state councilor, master of ceremonies.

The son of a valid State Councillor August 18, 1804 Peter Sergeyevich Trubetskoy (senior branch of the Princes Trubetskoy) and his second wife Maria Petrovna, nee Kromin. The name was in honor of his great-grandfather, Prince Nikita Yurevich.

April 2, 1823 Troubetzkoy came from, the pages of cameras in the cavalry regiment cornet. At age 22, he posed for a portrait by Orest Kiprensky in dress uniform Cavalry Regiment."

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Портрет Петра Алексеевича Оленина (1813) / Portrait of Pyotr Olenin (1813)

"Peter A. Olenin (1794-1868) - Russian officer, a member of Patriotic War of 1812, Major General (1833), the amateur artist, honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Peter A. Olenin was born in the family of Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin and Elizabeth Markovna, nee Poltoratskaya.

From birth, as well as senior Nicholas (1793-1812), the father was recorded in the Life Guards Semenov regiment , but the coronation of Emperor Paul brothers were excluded from the list as "do not appear on a call there."

Since 1807 Olenin on active duty: cadet in the retinue of His Imperial Majesty's Quartermaster part. April 25, 1809 transferred to the Life Guards Semenov regiment with the rank of ensign, sword belt. Ensign (03/09/1812). Peter A. was promoted to the first officer's rank on the day of performances in hiking the Life Guards and the Semenov regiment from St. Petersburg to Vilna (03/09/1812), but the order in the regiment took only 20 April. After 29 and 31 May parade and maneuvers regiment was to go back, but on June 13 the Emperor Alexander declared war on France and the regiment went to Swieciany where going to the infantry.

In the regiment brothers took part in the Battle of Borodino. M. I. Muravyov-Apostol recalled that Peter as the adjutant of the 2nd battalion was riding and was wounded flown near his head nucleus. After the fall of the horse, "he was considered killed." Prince Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy, visited the injured, told colleagues that the younger Olenin only wounded.

Wounded Peter "unconscious" was delivered in Moscow by Colonel Dame, and his brother Nikolas buried servants.

Two days Olenin did not come to himself, but gradually began to recover.
In 1813, during his illness O. Kiprensky painted a portrait of Peter.

A month later, after a concussion Peter Olenin returned to active duty. In 1813 with the rank of Lieutenant Olenin was adjutant of Count P. Stroganov and participated in foreign campaigns of the Russian army. In 1814 Olenin was appointed adjutant to M. Vorontsov and as part of the occupation corps took part in the battle of Paris.

In 1819, with the rank of Captain Olenin appointed adjutant P. P. Konovnitsyn. After the unrest in the Semenov regiment, and the order of his cashiering Peter A. transferred to 24 January 1821 in the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment. March 26, 1823 dismissed "due to illness" in the rank of captain.

Again he returned to the service of 9 January 1824 with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Corps of Engineers of Railways adjutant to the chief superintendent communication routes Duke Alexander of Württemberg. In 1830 he was appointed commander of a brigade of military workers Battalion of Communications. In January 1833 Olenin retired from uniform and the rank of major general."

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Портрет А. Н. Оленина (1813) / Portrait of Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin (1813)

He was a father of Pyotr Olenin.

"Alexey Nikolayevich Olenin (1763-1843) - (Aleksey Nikolaevich Olenin, Russian: Алексей Николаевич Оленин) was a Russian archaeologist, most notable for being a director of the Imperial Public Library between 1811 and 1843 and the sixth president of the Imperial Academy of Arts between 1817 and 1843.

Olenin was born into a noble family in Moscow. He received his initial education at home. Then in 1774, as was customary at the time among Russian aristocracy, he was enrolled in the Corps of Pages. In 1780 he was sent to study history and art history in Dresden. In 1785 Olenin returned to Russia to start a military career. In parallel he was writing a dictionary of military quotations and in 1786 he was elected to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, even though the dictionary had not yet been published. In December 1786 Olenin quit military service, but in 1789 he rejoined the army. He was sent to Pskov and subsequently, in 1789—1790, participated in the Russo-Swedish war. In 1795 he was promoted to the rank of colonel and retired from military service for good.

After 1795 Olenin was employed on a variety of civil positions, including director of the Saint Petersburg Mint (1799). In 1811 he was appointed director of the Imperial Public Library.

From 1794 he took a keen interest in art, in particular, produced a number of graphic works, and formed a large collection of antiquities, which he later (in 1829) donated to the Academy of Arts. He went on to illustrate a number of books, including the selected works of Gavrila Derzhavin and a book of fables by Ivan Khemnitser. In 1804 he was elected a member of the Academy of Arts.[2] In 1806 Olenin published his first scholarly paper, A letter to Prince Musin-Pushkin on the stone of Tmutarakan found at the island of Taman in 1792, in which he deciphered the inscription on the stone. Because of this paper, Olenin is regarded as a founder of Russian palaeography. He is also notable for being the host of one of the most fashionable salons in Saint Petersburg, which attracted many authors, artists, musicians, and actors.

Alexander Pushkin, considered to be the most famous Russian poet, was romantically involved with Anna Olenina, Alexey Olenin's youngest daughter. He wrote a number of poems to her, and even proposed to her in 1828, but was rejected outright."

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Портрет Анны Алексеевны Олениной (1828) / Portrait of Anna Olenina (1828)

She was a daughter of Alexey Olenin, and a sister of Pyotr Olenin.

"Anna A. Andro, nee Olenina (1808-1888) - the daughter of the president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts A. Olenin. Beloved Pushkin in the 1828-29 biennium. The target of his poems "Her eyes", "Do not sing the beauty in front of me", many verses "Onegin". Musician and singer. Author unreleased until now the diaries and memoirs of Pushkin. Wife of President of Warsaw F. A. Andro. Patron of young talents in Poland.

On account of her father, who knew ten languages, she received an excellent education. She wrote about herself:

«I very much obliged, from its true and deep knowledge of me something perepalo. In his talk, the choice for me books and in the range of unforgettable our great contemporaries Karamzin, Bludov, Krylov, Gnedich, Pushkin, Bryullov, Batiushkov, Glinka, Mickiewicz, Utkin, Shchedrin and other lay the whole I am everything that was, at the time desired.»

Additionally, Annette sang beautifully, and in his younger years, wrote the music for the Duma Ryleeva "Death Ermak". At 17, she was appointed maid of honor of the imperial court.

Familiarity with Pushkin was at the end of the 1810s, when the poet began to visit the house of venison, which was the center of the literary and artistic life of St. Petersburg. But the closer they occurred later, when in May 1827 he returned from a seven-year exile. Their first meeting took place at a ball at the Countess Tizengauzen-Khitrovo. Later, Pushkin often visited the venison, but in their manor, Priyutino was his own man.

Anna A. married after Pushkin's death in 1840 at the age of 32 years. Her husband was Colonel of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment Fedor Aleksandrovich Andro (1804-1885). In 1844 the family moved to Warsaw, where she has lived for about 40 years."

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Портрет Елизаветы Марковны Олениной (1813) / Portrait of Elizabeth Olenina (1813)

Elizabeth Olenina - (1768-1838).
She was a wife of Alexey Olenin
and a mother of Pyotr Olenin and Anna Olenina.





Портрет А. О. Смирновой-Россет (1830) / Portrait of A. O. Smirnova (1830)

"Alexandra Osipovna Smirnova (1809-1882) - (Александра Осиповна Смирнова, née Rossette, known also as Smirnova-Rossette, Смирнова-Россет) was a Russian Imperial court lady-in-waiting who served first widow Empress Maria Fyodorovna, then, after her death in 1828, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. Alexandra Rossette (who in 1832 married Russian diplomat Nikolai Smirnov), was an elitist Saint Petersburg salon hostess and a friend of Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Lermontov. She is best remembered for her memoirs, unusually frank, occasionally caustic, and, as it was argued decades later, not necessarily accurate."

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Портрет З. А. Волконской (1829) / Portrait of Zinaida Volkonskaya (1829)

Another portrait - http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2020540&postcount=29





Портрет М. А. Кикиной (1816) / Portrait of M. A. Kikina (1816)

Another portrait - http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2020502&postcount=28





Портрет неизвестной (1820) / Portrait of an unknown woman (1820)





Темноволосая красавица в горностаевой мантии / Dark-haired beautiful woman in an ermine mantle