young grigory gagarin
grigory gagarin born in saint petersburg noble rurikid princely gagarin family. father, prince grigory ivanovich gagarin (saint petersburg, 17 march 1782 - tegernsee, 12 february 1837), russian diplomat in france , later ambassador italy. father married in saint petersburg in 1809 mother yekaterina petrovna sojmonova (saint petersburg, 23 may 1790 - moscow, 27 february 1873). until age 13 boy family in paris , rome , studied in collegium tolomei in siena. grigory did not receive formal artistic education, took private lessons famous russian painter karl briullov @ time lived in italy.
in 1832 returned saint petersburg, became acquainted alexander pushkin , illustrated works queen of spades , tale of tsar saltan. became close opposition circle of sixteen , mikhail lermontov.
he worked russian diplomat in paris, rome , constantinople; stayed 2 years in munich. in 1839, after return russia, – russian writer vladimir sollogub – travelled saint petersburg kazan. sollogub wrote novel tarantas journey, , gagarin illustrated it.
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