Figure 1.--Countess Yekaterina Sergeevna Samoilova, nee Princess Troubetzkoy was painted in St. Petersburg during 1797. The artist was Madame Vigée LeBrun who spent 6 years in Russia during the Revolution. Yekaterina Sergeyevna Samoilova (1763-1830) was the daughter of Prince Sergei Aleksandrovich Trubetskoi and the wife of Count Aleksandre Nikolayevich Samoilov. She was painted with her two children: son Grigori and her daughter Yelena. |
Countess Yekaterina Sergeevna Samoilova, nee Princess Troubetzkoy was painted in St. Petersburg during 1797. The artist was Madame Vigée LeBrun who spent 6 years in Russia during the Revolution. Yekaterina Sergeyevna Samoilova (1763-1830) was the daughter of Prince Sergei Aleksandrovich Trubetskoi and the wife of
Count Aleksandre Nikolayevich Samoilov. She was painted with her two children: son Grigori and her daughter Yelena. The impage here unfortunately is a poor copy. It shows Grigori wearing a skeletin suit, not unlike the ones worn by French and English boys. Vigee Le Brun twice painted her sister, Baroness (later Countess) Anna Sergeevna Stroganova.
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