Part of a 14-panel panorama etching of 17th-century buildings in St. Petersburg, Russia

The Bobrinskii Mansion

Image 86

Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii, who owned the mansion on Galernaia Street in which the Whistler family lived from September 1843 to May 1844

Count Alexei Alekseevich Bobrinsky, 1844 (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806–1873). Portrait of Count Alexei Bobrinsky. 1844. Oil on canvas. 123 x 93 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (GE-9621).

Image 87

Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii’s father, Aleksei Grigorievich Bobrinskii, son of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigorii Grigorievich Orlov

Count Alexey Grigorievich Bobrinskii as a child, 1769 (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Carl Ludwig Christineck (c. 1732 – c. 1793). Portrait of Count Alexey Bobrinsky (1762–1813) as a Child. 1769. Oil on canvas. 74 x 90 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (ERZh-1407).

Image 88

The front gates of the Bobrinskii Mansion on Galernaia Street, in which the Whistler family lived from September 1843 to May 1844

Front gates of the Bobrinskii Mansion
The photographs in Images88 through 92 were all taken by G.K. Lukomskii c. 1917 and published in G.K. Lukomskii, Staryi Peterburg Progulki po starinnym kvartalam [Old Petersburg: Walks through the Old Quarters] [Petrograd: Svobodnoe iskusstvo, 1917] as well as in subsequent editions.
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Image 89

View of the front of the Bobrinskii Mansion

Front façade of the Bobrinskii Mansion
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Image 90

The Bobrinskii Mansion had a walled garden at the side and front with a pavillion.

Exterior of the garden wall of the Bobrinskii Mansion
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Image 91

Detail of fencing that was part of the garden wall of the Bobrinskii Mansion as seen from the New Admiralty Canal

Corner pavilion and garden wall of the Bobrinskii Mansion
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Image 92

Back of the Bobrinskii Mansion

Back face of the Bobrinskii Mansion
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Image 93

Garden at the back of the Bobrinskii Mansion

Colour image of the back face of the Bobrinskii Mansion, showing its position in the garden, white pillars and yellow walls
The Garden Façade of the Bobrinsky Palace. Courtesy of Sternyouth, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, accessed 4 November 2021.

Image 94

The Whistlers lived on the second floor (shown here) of the Bobrinskii Mansion. The reception rooms were on the first (street) floor.

Floor plan of the second level of the Bobrinskii Mansion
Floorplan of the second floor at the beginning of the 19th century. (Pamiatniki arkhitektury Leningrada 1958, p. 228). [full resolution image]