Bobrinsky
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The Counts Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy are a Russian noble family descending from Count Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky, who was Catherine the Great's illegitimate son by Count Grigory Orlov.
The Bobrinsky Palace on the Admiralty Canal Embankment
The first Count Bobrinsky
The Bogoroditsk Estate of the first count was designed by Ivan Starov and landscaped by Andrei Bolotov
The Bobrinsky burial vault in Bobriki
Catherine the Great
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Catherine II, commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a coup d'état against her husband, Peter III. Her long reign helped Russia thr
Bobrinsky
…The Counts Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy (Бобринские) are a Russian noble family descending from Count Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky (1762–1813), who was Catherine the Great's illegitimate son by Count Grigory Orlov. Empress Catherine II gave birth to her only official illegitimate son on April 11, 1762, several months…
Portrait, 1780s
Catherine in her childhood, by Anna Rosina de Gasc, 1742
Catherine as Grand Duchess around the time of her marriage (portrait by Georg Christoph Grooth, 1745)
An equestrian portrait of Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna from before 1749