Lot 180
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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800
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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800

Count Nikolai Nikolaevich Novosil'tsev (1767-1838), in blue coat, white waistcoat and white cravat, long powdered hair; tree and landscape background

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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1800
Count Nikolai Nikolaevich Novosil'tsev (1767-1838), in blue coat, white waistcoat and white cravat, long powdered hair; tree and landscape background
oval, 2 3/16 in. (56 mm.) high, gold frame, glazed reverse
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Lot Essay

A noted statesman in the first half of the reign of Alexander I, he became a senator in 1806, and later a member of the council of the Empire, director of the Vilensk and St. Petersburg universities, commissioner in Poland 1830-34, and president of the Academy of Sciences. Created count in 1833 he was a knight of the Order of St. Andrew.

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