INFO ON COUNT LANSKOY FAMILY....

[donaxalaska]

I WOULD LIKE A PHOTO OF HIM AND HIS WIFE.
ALSO A LIST OF HIS CHILD, AND WHERE DID THEY ALL GO AFTER THE REV.

[David_Pritchard]

I assume that you are asking about the parents of Count Andrei Mikhailovich Lanskoy? I do not know a thing about his parents though there is much information available on Andrei Mikahilovich because he became a much acclaimed painter in France. Andrei Mikahilovich was born at Moscow on 31 March 1902 and became a Cadet at the École Corps des Pages in Saint Petersburg. When the Revolution interrupted his education in 1917, he joined the White Army to combat the Bolsheviks. In 1919 his regiment moved to Kiev and in 1921 he left the Crimea for France, settling in Paris. He died on 22 August 1976 at Paris after a career as an abstract artist (rather unusual). Examples of his paintings can be seen at La Musée d'Art Moderne in Lille, France; The Hirshhorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and many others. He is buried at Sainte Geneviève des Bois in the Russian cemetary behind the Russian Orthodox Church of Notre Dame de l'Assomption.


David

[donaxalaska]

THANK YOU DAVID..

I AM LOOKING FOR HIS PERSONEL FAMILY HISTORY.ABOUT HIS MOTHER/FATHER/SIBLINGS...
DO YOU KNOW ANY SOURCES?

THE REASON I AM ASKING IS MY GRANDFATHER
GREGORY LANSKOY WAS THE SON OF THE COUNT  LANSKOY AND HAD A YOUNGER SISTER WHO MOVED TO NEW YORK AND A YOUNGER BROTHER WHO LIVED IN FRANCE.BUT THE  DETAILS WERE ALWAYS KEEP SECRET... .....I ONLY HAVE A FEW DOCUMENTS  WE FOUND IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S THINGS AFTER SHE DIED....

HENCE I WOULD LIKE FAMILY DETAILS OF COUNT LANSKOY.....
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR INFOMATION.

DONA

[David_Pritchard]

Your family has some very good marriages: Sofiya Alelsandrovna Lanskaya was the wife of Aleksander Aleksandrovich Pushkin (son of the poet); Dmitri Sergeevich Lanskoy married Princess Varvara Aleksandrovna Odoevskaya. Anna Vasilievna Lanskaya was the wife of Prince Aleksander Borisovich Golitsyn; Count Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoy married Princess Varvara Ivanova Odoevskaya.

The problem with finding information about your grandfather is that there were many Counts Lanskoy. The three sons of Count Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoy, Stepan, Aleksander and Mikhail, all received this title when their father received it from Emperor Aleksander II in 1861.

It would help if you could supply your grandfather's date and place of birth as well as his patronymic and any other information that you may have.

David

[David_Pritchard]

The blazon of the Lanskoy coat-of-arms:

Quarterly: 1st, Azure, a cross couped argent; 2nd, Gules, two fish naiant and counter-naiant Or; 3rd, Argent, upon an averdant base a tower Proper; 4th, Azure a mullet  of six points Argent; Overall in fess point an inescutcheon Or, a lance in pale Sable, surmounting two dexter arms in fess Argent.

David

[David_Pritchard]

Count Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoy, Interior Minister of the Russian Empire. Died 1862.

[donaxalaska]

THANK YOU FOR THE PHOTO'S ...
ANY SOURCES FOR  OTHER OFF SPRING OF COUNT SERGEI STEPANVOVICH LANSKOY, BESIDE ANDRE'
IS EXTREMELY HELPFUL FOR MY QUEST..

THANK YOU FOR THE DISCRIPTION OF THE COAT OF ARMS...IT HELP MOTIVATE ME TO FIND A COPY OF IT...

[David_Pritchard]

While it is a guess, I think that artist Count Andrei Mikhailovich is the son of Count Mikhail Sergeevich Laskoy and the grandson of Count Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoy.

Your grandfather, Grigory Lanskoy is probably the grandson or great-grandson of Count Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoy. What would help immeasurably in determining this is the name of Grigory's father.

David

An entry from a biographical dictionary printed in Swedish on the first count.

Lanskoj, Sergej Stepanovitj, grefve, rysk statsman,
f. 1787, d. 1862, var 1817-24 direktör i kommissionen
för statsskuldens amortering, blef 1834 medlem
af kejserliga senaten och 1850 af riksrådet samt
utnämndes 1855 till inrikesminister. Från denna post,
på hvilken han tack vare skickliga medhjälpare,
särskildt N. A. Miljutin, befordrade den svåra
frågan om lifegenskapens upp-häfvande i Ryssland,
afträdde han 1861 samt erhöll då greflig värdighet. -
Jfr Leroy-Beaulieu, "Un homme d'état russe" (1884).
"             (A-d J.)

[David_Pritchard]

Letter of instruction dated 20 May 1913 from the Ober-steremoniimeister or Chief Master of Ceremonies, to Count Aleksander Mikhailovich Lanskoy regarding a ceremony on 25 May 1913 with HIH Prince Aleksander Georgievich Romanovsky, Duke von Leuchtenburg in attendance.

[donaxalaska]

thank you david.
dona

[David_Pritchard]

Illustrations of two Lanskoy noblemen who gained military fame during the Napoleonic Wars.



Portrait of M. P. Lanskoy. 1813. Italian pencil on paper by Orest Kiprensky. In the collection of the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg.



Portrait of A. P. Lanskoy. 1813. Pencil, sanguina on paper, 22.5x17.5 cm. by Alexander Orlowski. In the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.