1796 Countess Anna Vladimirovna Bobrinskaya by ? (State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia)

A genealogical sketch of her is here. She married Catherine II’s natural son Aleksey Bobrinskiy. Her eldest daughter married one Nikolay Sergeyevich Gagarin (see comment below alluding to the Cold War and recall the first man to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin).

From hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/168262/?lng=pt; flaws in background removed with Photoshop.

1796 Countess Anna Vladimirovna Bobrinskaya by ? (State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia) From hermitagemuseum.org:wps:portal:hermitage:digital-collection:01.+Paintings:168262:?lng=pt deflaw

Anna Bobrinskaya’s dress has a sewn-on bodice placing it years ahead of The West, to use Cold War language, a century and a half before Sputnik.

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