Shuvalov
The House of Shuvalov (
Empress Elizabeth and was elevated to the rank of count
on 5 September 1746.
Notable family members
- Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment, who declined a comital title offered to him by the sovereign
- Count Field Marshaland head of the secret police
- Countess Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shuvalova (1733 –1821), daughter of the above, state lady
- Count Minister of War, one of the most influential policy-makers during Elizabeth's reign
- Countess Mavra Shuvalova (1708–1759), the latter's wife, who was a confidante of Empress Elizabeth of Russia
- Count 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica names him as the true author of Catherine II's celebrated letters to the French Encyclopedists
- Countess Catherine Shuvalova (1743–1817), the latter's wife, who was Catherine II's Lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Court of Russia
- Count Peter Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827–1889), Andrey Petrovich's grandson, who wielded great influence at the court of Alexander II of Russia
- Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov (1830–1908), the latter's brother, who represented Russia at the Congress of Berlin and at the German court
- Count Pavel Pavlovich Shuvalov (1859–1905), the latter's son, who headed the Moscow police before his assassination by revolutionaries in 1905
- Count Patriotic War of 1812
- Count Mikhail Andreyevich Shuvalov (1850–1903), who inherited the title of Prince Vorontsov from his maternal grandfather, but died without issue
- Countess Elizabeth Andreevna Shuvalova (1845–1924), the latter's sister, who inherited the fortune of her brother and married Count Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov
Other people with the Shuvalov name
- Igor Shuvalov (born 1967), First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
- Iryna Shuvalova (born 1986), Ukrainian poet, translator and scholar
- Polina Shuvalova (born 2001), Russian chess player
- Sergei Shuvalov (1951—2021), Russian politician
- Vadim Shuvalov (born 1958), Russian politician
Residences
The Shuvalov family's residences included three palaces in Saint Petersburg and a manor nearby:
- Shuvalov Mansion – the Baroque palace of Ivan Shuvalov on Italyanskaya Street, constructed in 1749–55 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky and later sold to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire, best known as the place where the Imperial Academy of Arts started to operate;
- );
- Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace – a Neoclassical palace on the Fontanka Embankment that was inherited by Pavel Petrovich Shuvalov in 1900 from the Naryshkin family, which is now the location of the Fabergé Museum;
- the manor of Pargolovo near Saint Petersburg.
Through marriage, the Shuvalovs also acquired property in
Rundale Palace, which was originally built for Ernst Johann von Biron
.
Gallery
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Shuvalov Mansion in Saint Petersburg
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Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg
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Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palacein St. Petersburg
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Shuvalov manor in Pargolovo
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Shuvalov house in Lysva
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Shuvalov residence in Moscow
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Rundale Palace in Latvia
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to House of Shuvalov.
- (in English) Marek, Miroslav. "Shuvalov family tree". Genealogy.EU..
- (in German) Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften Teil 2,3: Estland, Görlitz 1930
- Information about Shuvalov Palace - Fabergé Museum website