Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii, who owned the mansion on Galernaia Street in which the Whistler family lived from September 1843 to May 1844
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
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). [full resolution image]
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Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii
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.
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). [full resolution image]
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Vladimir Alekseevich Bobrinskii, second son of Count Aleksei Alekseevich Bobrinskii
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). [full resolution image]
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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
The front gates of the Bobrinskii Mansion on Galernaia Street, in which the Whistler family lived from September 1843 to May 1844
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. [full resolution image]