Friday, July 23, 2021

Count and Countess Panin - two portraits by Jean-Louis Voille, 1791-92

 

Count Nikita Petrovich Panin (17 April 1770, Kharkov - 1 March 1837, Smolensk), Imperial Russian diplomat, vice-chancellor, and and Foreign Minister. He was a nephew of Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, son of Petr Ivanovich Panin, and son-in-law of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov. He was one of the group who plotted the assassination of Paul I in 1801 which brought Alexander I to the throne.


Countess Sofia Vladimirovna Panina, née Orlova (6 November 1774 - 7 November 1844), daughter of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov and lady-in-waiting to the Empress, Catherine II. The couple married in 1790; he was twenty and she was sixteen. They had five children together.


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Two miniatures of the couple by Charles-Joseph de la Celle, Chevalier de Chateaubourg (1758-1837), 1797.





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