Buturlina, Anna Artemievna

In her youth, she became a model of portraits of the best portrait painters of her time - Levitsky (the State Russian Museum, 1780-90s) and Rokotov (1793, the Tambov Regional Art Gallery); paired portraits of the spouses by Borovikovsky (1797), located in their estate “Dubna” in the Tula region, came in a copy of Theodosius Yanenko (1790s, State Tretyakov Gallery). She herself was also engaged in painting - she took lessons from A. Molinari . Her miniature self-portrait has been preserved.

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  Hood. Dm Levitsky. 1780-90s, timing

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  Hood. F. Rokotov. 1793, Tambov

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  Hood. V. Borovikovsky (copy of F. Yanenko). 1790s, State Tretyakov Gallery

Contemporaries noted her education, “an extraordinary woman in secular treatment and affability,” wrote Mikhail Nikolaevich Makarov (“Pushkin in the memoirs of contemporaries”). She was visited by the envoy of the Sardinian king in St. Petersburg, Count Joseph de Mestre (1753-1821), Pater Jourdan, members of the Jesuit Order, under the influence of which in 1813-1814 she was preparing to convert to Catholicism. In 1817 she moved with her family to Italy, living mainly in Florence; in 1825 finally converted to Catholicism. She led an ascetic lifestyle. Buried in Florence .

The second daughter of Artemy Ivanovich Vorontsov , the godfather of A.S. Pushkin, and Praskovya Fedorovna Kvashnina-Samarina (1750-1797), cousin of Maria Alekseevna Hannibal, the poet’s grandmother. Buturlina was very friendly with the poet’s mother, the “beautiful creole”, who, upon arrival in Moscow, settled near her home ^[1] .

In August 1793, she married her second cousin Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin . In the dowry behind her was given the estate of Belkino . “Buturlin’s marriage in 1793 was a complete surprise to those around him. His bride was only sixteen years old, she continued to play dolls slowly, and the young husband was forced to ask her mother-in-law to leave with her an elderly Frenchwoman, transferred from governesses to the rank of companion. Nevertheless, the wedding was celebrated very solemnly, and a memorial inscription was made in her honor in the church of the village of Belkina near Borovsky, where the wedding took place. Buturlin noted this event with good French poems, which he composed all his life. The Rokotov portraits, in all likelihood, should have celebrated the same date ” ^[1] .

They had nine children:

1. Peter Dmitrievich (1794-1853), a participant in the war of 1812 , was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th art. Adjutant to Count M. S. Vorontsov ; diplomat, secretary of the Russian mission in Rome in 1822-1825. He was married since 1822 to Aurora Osipovna Ponyatovskaya (1800-1872), lived with his family in Italy, like his three sisters, and converted to Catholicism.
2. Maria Dmitrievna (1795-1879), married to the Tuscan Earl of Digny.
3. Pavel Dmitrievich (1797 - d.
4. Alexander Dmitrievich (1800— d. In young.)
5. Boris Dmitrievich (1802 - d. In young.)
6. Elizaveta Dmitrievna (1803–1879), married to the Lombard Marquis Sommarina.
7. Sofya Dmitrievna (1806-1813)
8. Mikhail Dmitrievich (1807-1876), military historian and author of famous memoirs.
9. Elena Dmitrievna (1813-1881), married to the Lombard prince Vidonia Sorreggiano (d.1836).

• The inmate is Varvara Ivanovna Obninskaya (nee Kavetskaya ; about 1807 -?), The only daughter of the widower Ivan Antonovich Kavetsky, an impoverished nobleman who runs Buturlinovka. Husband - Obninsky, Narkiz Antonovich