The counts Bobrinsky - and other lofty Russian gentlemen in Daguerreotypes and portraits

Count Alexei Alexeievich Bobrinsky, 1842.

Count Alexei Alexeievich Bobrinsky (8 January 1800 – 4 October 1868), Russian nobleman, the son of Count Alexei Grigorievich Bobrinsky who was the illegitimate offspring of Empress Catherine II and her lover Count Grigori Orlov. The second Count Bobrinsky married Sophia Alexandrovna Samoilova (1797-1866) in 1821; the couple would have three sons together: Alexander (May 17, 1823 – February 24, 1903), Vladimir (2 October 1824 – 28 May 1898), and Lev (8 November 1831 – 23 March 1915).

1842.

1844.

Portrait by Winterhalter, 1844.

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Count Alexander Alexeievich Bobrinsky, 1850.

1842.

Circa 1840s.

Portrait by Franz Krüger, 1850.

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Count Vladimir Alexeievich Bobrinsky, 1845.

Circa 1846.

1844.

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Count Pavel Sergeievich Stroganov, circa 1850s.

Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yussupov, circa 1850s

Grand Dukes Nikolai Nikolaievich, Konstantin Nikolaievich, and Mikhail Nikolaievich, circa late 1840s-early 1850s.

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich, by Sergei Zaryanko, 1853.

Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich, by Richard Lauchert, 1857.

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaievich, unknown artist, circa late 1840s-early 1850s.

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaievich, circa late 1840s-early 1850s.