#russian nobility

Portrait of Maria Grigorievna Raevskaya, née Princess Gagarina (1851-1941)

Artist: Ivan Kuzmich Makarov (Russian, 1822-1897)

Date: c. 1870's-1880's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Depicted Person:

Princess Irina traveling in Moscow in 1915.

The State Historical Museum has the photo labeled as unknown; however, this is actually little Nikolai Sumarkov-Elston, the eldest son of Prince and Princess Youssoupoff.

The photo was taken in the studio of famed photographer Ivan Dyagovchenko. Princess Zenaida Youssoupoff loved to have her children photographed by the best photographers of their time. There's a known photograph of him from this photo session, currently in the archives of the Arkhangelskoe Museum Reserve.

As well as this photograph of the proud mother holding her son.

Photograph of Princess Tatiana Youssoupoff with her daughters, Zenaida and Tatiana.

Personally, I'm thrilled to see this and hope I'll eventually come across a higher-quality version of it.

Prince Felix Youssoupoff

Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter