Eva Aurora Charlotta Karamzin was a Finnish philanthropist. Her better-known names are Princess Aurora Demidova and Aurora Karamzin, titles that were acquired after her first and second marriages, respectively.
Aurore Demidoff, portrait by Karl Brullov, 1837. Originally in the private collection of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Sold at Sotheby's in London, 2007 to Alisher Usmanov.
Villa Hakasalmi manor house in the centre of Helsinki where Aurora Karamzin lived most of her life. Now a museum.
Aurora Demidova with son Paul by L. H. de Liomenil, 1840s. Sold by the Demidoff family at Christie's in New York, 2007.
Aurora Karamzin, by Alexis Joseph Perignon, 1853. The Collections of the National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov
Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov was a Russian nobleman of the Demidov dynasty, philanthropist and industrialist. His father was Count Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (1773-1828) and his mother Baroness Elizaveta Alexandrovna Stroganova (1779-1818). He was the second eldest of four children, two of which lived to the adult age. Most of his childhood was spent in Paris, where also his parents preferred to live.
Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov at the age of nineteen. By Jean-Baptiste Singry, 1817.
Posthumous portrait of Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov. P. P. Vedenetsky, 1841. Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve.
Aurora Demidova with son Paul by L. H. de Liomenil, 1840s. Sold by the Demidoff family at Christie's auction in New York, 2007.
