Paolo Troubetzkoy

Prince Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy (Russian: Павел Петрович Трубецкой, "Pavel Petrovich Trubetskoy"; Verbania Intra near Lago Maggiore, Italy, 15 February 1866 — Verbania Pallanza near Lago Maggiore, 12 February 1938) was an artist and a sculptor, of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times". [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b4ac34ca-2ab9-11dd-b40b-000077b07658.html]

Life

He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy. He was a self taught artist, although he learned sculpture from Giuseppe Grandi. He is associated with impressionism, due to his ability to grasp sketchy movements in his bronze works. He portraited the society of the "belle epoque". Few of his bronzes are still available in the market. Quite famous is the 35 cm high portrait of Costance Stewart Richardson called "The Dancer".

The largest and best known of his works is the monumental equestrian statue [ The night view of the equestrian monument to Tsar Alexander III: see [http://www.encspb.ru/en/bigimage.php?kod=2803987828 here] ] of the Russian Tsar Alexander III in St. Petersburg, Russia. The monument was opened in 1909 on the Nevsky prospekt near the Moskovsky Vokzal terminal. After the Russian revolution of 1917, the Soviet government removed the monument from the main street to the backyard of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the monument to Tsar Alexander III was placed in front of the Marble Palace near the embankment of the Neva river.

Paolo Troubetzkoy:

"As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill - to kill helpless creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves."

ome works

Expositions

*Paris Expo 1900 (gran premio). In: AIC
*De Young Museum (bust of Michael de Young)
*Galleria Nazionale (Rome)
*WWAA 1938

Family

Mother

:Ada Winans 1917

Father

:Peter Troubetzkoy 22 August 1822 - 28 August 1892

Brothers

:Pierre Troubetzkoy 1864 – 1936 ((married the novelist Amélie Rives):Ludwig Troubetzkoy 1867 – 1959 (married Angela Baroni):Pietro Troubetzkoy Hahn 1886 - 1953 (married Amely Sirtori)

Sisters

:Tatiana Troubetzkoy 7 February 1848 - 28 February 1848:Elena de Gontaud-Biron 1849 - 3 March 1934 (married 24 November 1873 Count Paul de Gontaud-Biron):Maria Prozorovsky-Galitsyn 18 April 1853 - 16 October 1933 (married Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovsky-Galitsyn)

Son

:Yury Nolden

ources

References

See also

:Troubetzkoy

External links

: [http://images.google.com/images?q=Paolo%20Troubetzkoy&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi Paolo Troubetzkoy, images by Google]