Paolo Troubetzkoy

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Portrait of Paolo Troubetzkoy by Valentin Serov

Prince Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy (Russian: Павел Петрович Трубецкой, Pavel Petrovich Trubetskoy; Verbania Intra near Lago Maggiore, Italy, 15 February 1866 — Verbania Pallanza near Lago Maggiore, 12 February 1938) was an artist and a sculptor, of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".[1]

1 Life
2 Some works
3 Expositions
4 Family
5 Sources
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Life

He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy. He was a self taught artist, although he learned sculpture from Giuseppe Grandi. He is associated with impressionism, due to his ability to grasp sketchy movements in his bronze works. He portraited the society of the belle epoque. Few of his bronzes are still available in the market. Quite famous is the 35 cm high portrait of Costance Stewart Richardson called "The Dancer".

The largest and best known of his works is the monumental equestrian statue^[1] of the Russian Tsar Alexander III in St. Petersburg, Russia. The monument was opened in 1909 on the Nevsky prospekt near the Moskovsky Vokzal terminal. After the Russian revolution of 1917, the Soviet government removed the monument from the main street to the backyard of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the monument to Tsar Alexander III was placed in front of the Marble Palace near the embankment of the Neva river.

Paolo Troubetzkoy:

As I cannot kill, I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill - to kill helpless creatures which neither you nor I could kill ourselves.

[edit] Some works

Isaac Levitan, 1899	Princess M.N. Gagarina with her daughter, Marina, 1898	Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, 1899	Children (N.S and V.S Troubetzkoys), 1900
Sergei Witte with his setter, 1901	Friends, 1901