Jun 4, 2023
Members of Tsar Alexander’s inner circle:
Book quotes from 19th Century Russia: From the Age of Napoleon to the Eve of Revolution, by Alexander Kornilov
Count Pavel Stroganov
Portrait by George Dawe, before 1825
Note: I’ve seen this picture used for Hippolyte Charles (Josephine’s lover at the end of the 1790s) but it is not him!
Frédéric-César de La Harpe
Portrait by Jacques Augustin Catherine Pajou, 1803
Count Nikolay Novosiltsev
Portrait by Stepan Shchukin, before 1808
Prince Adam Czartoryski
Portrait by Joseph Abel, 1799
Photograph is from 1861 or earlier, by Nadar
Prince Viktor Pavlovich Kochubey
Portrait by François Gérard, 1809