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| Keywords: Agrafena Zakrevskaya by D.Dawe (1823, priv.coll).jpg portrait of countess agrafena fiodorovna zakrevskaya 1799-1879 signed l c Geo Dawe R A pin Petersburg 1823 oil on canvas 220 by 147 5 cm 86 1/2 by 58 in The sitter was the daughter of Count Feodor Andreevich Tolstoy 1782-1846 a flamboyant figure in St Petersburg known as 'the American' who had been left on his own off the Aleutian Islands during a world voyage as a punishment for insubordination In 1818 she married Arseny Zakrevsky who became Governor of Finland in 1823 and was later Minister of the Interior Agrafena was an attractive and sociable figure in St Petersburg society much loved by the Russian poets Bariatinsky and Pushkin Pushkin was particularly taken with her and they started a passionate affair in 1828 He wrote several poems to the Countess including The Portrait in which 'with her bazing soul and tempestuous passions' she appears 'like a lawless comet' in St Petersburg In November 1829 Pushkin drew up a list of thirty women with whom he had been in love and Agrafena features in this 'Don Juan' list http //www artnet de/k C3 BCnstler/george-dawe/portrait-of-countess-agrafena-fiodorovn-aa-n7gdK9QjvO98v5E8kaL06w2 1823 George Dawe britisch 1781 - 1829 Agrafena Zakrevskaya Files uploaded by Shakko from various sources Portraits by George Dawe Russian nobilty Private collections of Russian art PD-old | ||||
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