Bobrinsky

The Counts Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy (Бобринские) are a Russian noble family descending from Count Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky (1762–1813), who was Catherine the Great's natural son by Count Grigory Orlov.

The first Count Bobrinsky

Empress

Bobrinsky Palace, the Bobrinsky family seat in Bogoroditsk, was designed by Ivan Starov and constructed in the 1770s and 1780s, starting in 1773. The nearby Kazanskaya church was completed by 1778. The park was laid out by the palace's administrator, Andrey Bolotov (1738–1833), who is better known as one of the first Russian economists. It was Bolotov who established the Children's Theatre in Bogoroditsk. The palace and estate were renovated in the 1870s. In the 20th century, the premises suffered enormous damage from the Bolsheviks, who demolished the wings of the palace in 1929, and from the Wehrmacht, who blew up the chateau in December 1941. The palace was restored in the 1960s and now functions as a museum.

Bobrinskys in business

Aleksey's son Count Aleksey Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1800–1868)

Unlike many other Russian nobles, the Bobrinskys continued as prosperous businessmen after the 1861

, where he actively campaigned for the monarchist cause.

Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1868–1927) was the third son of Count Aleksey Pavlovich. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, near Bath, Somerset, together with three of his younger brothers.^[3] He represented Russian nationalists in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th State Dumas, advocating speedy Russification of border regions and supporting Pyotr Stolypin's reforms. Like most of the Bobrinskys, he emigrated to France following the revolutionary nationalization of their family enterprises. He is buried in the cemetery at Montmartre.

Bobrinskys in science

Apart from politics, Count Aleksey Alexandrovich was a noted historian and archaeologist, Chairman of the Imperial Archaeological Commission (1886), Vice-President of the

Pereshchepina hoard

.

Vladimir's nephew, Count

zoologists. A species of jerboa

is named after him. His son Nikolay Nikolayevich, a geographer, who wrote a novel on the life of the first Bobrinsky, lived in Moscow until his death in 2000.

Count

Bobrinski bucket, is at the Hermitage Museum. After the revolutions of 1917, he settled at his villa in Seis am Schlern

. The Ismaili peoples among whom he travelled respect his work and reputation. The 150th anniversary of his birth was celebrated in 2011.

Notes

1. ^ "4 sex scandals in the Romanov family". Russia Beyond the Headlines. 8 August 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
2. ^ Harden, Evelyn. "Bobrinskii, in The St. Petersburg Diaries (1843–1848) of Anna McNeill Whistler (Burnaby, BC: SFU Digital Publishing, 2022), 1099–1102". anna-whistler-diary.github.io. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
3. ^ Monkton Combe School Register 1868-1964 (38th ed.). Bath: Monkton Combe School. 1965.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to House of Bobrinskiy.

• Homepage of the Bogoroditsk Museum
• Bobrinsky Estate in Bogoroditsk
• Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy of the Bobrinsky family". Genealogy EU.