Shuvalov

Shuvalov

Shuvalov ( _ru. Шува́лов) is a Russian noble family which, although documented since the 16th century, rose to distinction during the reign of Empress Elizabeth and was elevated to counts on 5 September, 1746.

People

Members of Shuvalov noble family

The notable Shuvalovs include:
*Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (1727-1797), lover of Empress Elizabeth and Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment, who declined a comital title offered to him by the sovereign;
*Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov (1710-1771), his first cousin, Field Marshal and head of the secret police;
*Count Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov (1711-1762), the latter's brother, Field Marshal and Minister of War, one of the most influential policy-makers during Elizabeth's reign;
*Count Andrey Petrovich Shuvalov (1743-1789), the latter's son, spent most of his life abroad, conversing with Voltaire and writing libertarian verses in French; the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica names him as the true author of Catherine II's celebrated letters to the French Encyclopedists;
*Count Peter Andreyevich Shuvalov (1827-1889), the latter's grandson, who wielded great influence at the court of Alexander II of Russia;
*Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov (1776-1823), Russian general during Patriotic War 1812;
*Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov (1830-1908), the latter's brother, who represented Russia at the Congress of Berlin and at the German court;
*Count Pavel Pavlovich Shuvalov (1859-1905), the latter's son, who headed the Moscow police before his assassination by revolutionaries in 1905;
*Count Mikhail Andreyevich Shuvalov (1850-1903), inherited the title of Prince Vorontsov from his maternal grandfather but died without issue.

Other people with Shuvalov last name

*Igor Shuvalov (born 1967) - First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

Palaces

The Shuvalov seats include four residences in St Petersburg:
*the Baroque palace of Ivan Shuvalov on Italianskaya Street, constructed in 1749-55 to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, later sold to the Ministry of Justice, best known as the place where the Imperial Academy of Arts started to operate;
*the Neoclassical palace of Peter Ivanovich Shuvalov, later sold to the House of Yusupov, who decorated it with shameless opulence, best known as the place where Rasputin was killed ( [http://enlight.ru/camera/330/index_e.html] , [http://enlight.ru/camera/331/index_e.html] , [http://enlight.ru/camera/332/index_e.html] , [http://enlight.ru/camera/333/index_e.html] );
*another Neoclassical palace, inherited by Pavel Petrovich Shuvalov from the Naryshkins in 1900 ("illustrated, to the right");
*the manor of Shuvalovo near St Petersburg.

They also inherited the possessions and castles of the ducal Biron family in Courland, such as the Rundale Palace.

External links

*en icon [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/russia/shuvalov.html Shuvalov family tree] .
*de icon [http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00000601/images/index.html?seite=316 Genealogisches Handbuch der baltischen Ritterschaften Teil 2,3: Estland, Görlitz 1930]


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