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The Bobrinskii Mansion

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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).

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One of a set of self-portrait daguerrotypes taken by Count Aleksei Bobrinskii in 1842

daguerrotype of Count Alexei Alekseevich Bobrinsky sitting at a desk, head bent — Aleksei Bobrinskii (1800–1868). Self Portrait. 1842. Daguerrotype. Image: 11.8 x 9; overall: 18.5 x13.4 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (ERFT-27796).
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Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii

Painting of head and shoulders of Count Alexei Alekseevich Bobrinsky in a dress suit — Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov (1791–1848). Bobrinskii Aleksei Alekseevich. 1800–1868. 1830s. Watercolor on paper. 17.9 x 14 cm. Signed “Sokol…” (a piece of the folio is cut off). Entered the collection in 1964 from Tsentral’nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv drevnikh aktov [Central State Archive of Ancient Documents]. (Details from Moskovskaia izobrazitel’naia Pushkiniana: Portrety Pushkina; Portrety sovremennikov Pushkina; Vidy pushkinskikh mest [Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Izobrazitel’noe Iskusstvo, 1975], p. 31; the color image is from a postcard created from the original.)

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Sofia Aleksandrovna (Samoilova) Bobrinskaia (1799 –1866), wife of Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii. She was close to Empress Aleksandra Fyodorovna, as the insignia she is wearing indicates.

Sofia Bobrinskaia in a red dress with a white gauze shawl, and a red ribbon insignia on her left breast — Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov (1791–1848). Bobrinskaia Sofiia Aleksandrovna. 1799–1866. 1827. Watercolor on paper. 25 x 20.8 cm. Entered the collection in 1966. (Details from Moskovskaia izobrazitel’naia Pushkiniana, p. 30; the color image is from a postcard created from the original.)

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Aleksandr Alekseevich Bobrinskii, first son of Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii

Franz Krüger (1797–1857). Portrait of Count Alexander Bobrinsky (1823–1903). 1850. Oil on canvas. 65 x 54.5 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (ERJ-982).
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Vladimir Alekseevich Bobrinskii, second son of Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii

Daguerrotype of a young Vladimir Bobrinskii sitting at a desk with a plant on it, elbow on table, head resting in his hand — J. Weninger Photography Studio. Count Vladimir Bobrinskii. 1845. Daguerreotype. Image: 8.4 х 7 cm; overall: 13.3 х 11.3 cm. On the back is written: “Count Vladimir Bonbrinsky, étudiant … Daguerrotype fait par son Père le Cte Alexis [Count Vladimir Bobrinksii, student … daguerreotype made by his father, the Count Aleksei].” State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (ERFT-27797).
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Lev Alekseevich Bobrinskii, third son of Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii

Count Lev Alekseevich Bobrinskii, Sugar Producer and Philanthropist. (From Smela: Kratkoye statistiko-ekonomicheskoye opisaniye imeniy i zavodov gr. L'va Alekseyevicha, Alekseya, Andreya i Georgiya Aleksandrovichey Bobrinskikh [Smela: A Brief Statistical and Economic Description of the Estates and Factories of Counts Lev Alekseevich, Alexei, Andrei and Georgii Alexandrovich Bobrinsky]. Kiev, 1913)

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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).

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

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View of the front of the Bobrinskii Mansion

Front façade of the Bobrinskii Mansion — [full resolution image]

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

Exterior of the garden wall of the Bobrinskii Mansion — [full resolution image]

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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 — [full resolution image]

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Back of the Bobrinskii Mansion

Back face of the Bobrinskii Mansion — [full resolution image]

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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.

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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]