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Lot Essay
The history of the Razumovsky family began with Aleksei Grigorievich (1709-1771), a cossack from the Ukraine. He became a favourite of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna (daughter of Tsar Peter the Great) and in 1774, he and his brother Kirill Grigorievich were bestowed the title of Counts of the Russian Empire.
By order of Empress Catherine the Great, Count Kirill Grigorievich (1750-1837) was appointed hetman of the Little Russian General Field and became a field marshall and one of his sons, Count Grigori Kirilovich (1759-1837) started a society of sciences, wrote several books on minerology and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Count Grigori Kirilovich was the father of Eliza Razumovsky, who, in Vienna, married a Danish diplomat by the name of Adam Moltke. The present lot, was a wedding gift from Tsar Nicholas I in 1828 to the young couple, thus indicating the prominence of the Razumovsky family in the Russian court.
By order of Empress Catherine the Great, Count Kirill Grigorievich (1750-1837) was appointed hetman of the Little Russian General Field and became a field marshall and one of his sons, Count Grigori Kirilovich (1759-1837) started a society of sciences, wrote several books on minerology and was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Count Grigori Kirilovich was the father of Eliza Razumovsky, who, in Vienna, married a Danish diplomat by the name of Adam Moltke. The present lot, was a wedding gift from Tsar Nicholas I in 1828 to the young couple, thus indicating the prominence of the Razumovsky family in the Russian court.