Benois (family)

Portrait of the Benois family, around 1816

The Benois family (Russian Бенуа) was an important Russian family of architects, artists and set designers of French origin.

history

The family goes back to the pastry chef of the Duc de Montmorency Louis César Benois from Saint-Ouen-sur-Morin . He emigrated during the French Revolution to Russia, where he eventually taster and chef at the court of Tsar I. Paul was. He was married to the German-born midwife and lady-in-waiting of Tsarina Maria Fjodorovna Anna Katharina Gropp (e). She herself was the daughter of a coppersmith from Hanover . The marriage had seventeen children.

The family produced a number of important architects, artists and stage designers in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1912 the architect and State Councilor Julius Juljewitsch Benois was given the hereditary Russian nobility for his personal merits. In a pavilion east of Peterhof Palace , Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Benois opened a family museum Musej Semij Benuain in 1988 , which shows works and documents on the history of the extensive family of artists.

Tribe list

coat of arms

Louis Jules César Auguste Léontie Benois (1771–1822) ⚭ 1794 Anna Katharina Christina Concordia Gropp (1777–1863)

• Jeannette Melanie Leontjewna Benois (1798–?) ⚭ 1819  August Robert (1793–1823)
  • Catharina Augustjewna Robert (1820–?) ⚭ Genadyi Taramov
• Michail Leontjewitsch Benois (1799–1867) ⚭ NN NN
• Louis Charles Marie Léontie Leontjewitsch Benois (1801–1885) ⚭ Augusta Kayclova (1805–?)
  • Alexei Leontjewitsch Benois (1838–1902) ⚭ Natalia Famke (1836–?)
• Maria Elisabeth Leontjewna Benois (1806–1876) ⚭ Frederic Peterson
• Nikolai Leontjewitsch Benois (1813–1898) ⚭ Camilla Albertovna Cavos (1828–1891)
  • Ekaterina Nikolajewna Benois (1850–1933) ⚭ Jewgeni Alexandrowitch Lanceray (1848–1898)
  • Albert Nikolajewitsch Benois (1852–1936) ⚭ 1876 Maria Karolvna Child (1855–1909)
  • Leonti Nikolajewitsch Benois (1856–1928) ⚭ NN NN
  • Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Benois (1862–1930) ⚭ NN NN
  • Alexander Nikolajewitsch Benois (1870–1960)
  • Camilla Nikolajewna Benois (? –1920) ⚭ Matthew Edward Edwards (1850–1917)
• Alexander Leontjewitsch Benois (1817–1875) ⚭ NN NN
  • Alexander Alexandrowitsch Benois (1852–1928) ⚭ NN NN
  • Clara Alexandrowna Benois ⚭ Siegfried Levi
• Julius Leontjewitsch Benois (1820–1898) ⚭ NN NN
  • Julius Juljewitsch Benois (1852–1929)

coat of arms

In the azure blue shield with ermine - the head of the shield is a silver column growing from the base of the shield , each flanked by a golden lily . On the crowned helmet with blue-silver helmet covers on the right, blue-gold helmet covers on the left, a golden lily between a blue flight .

Web links

Commons : Benois  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Sperling: Beyond the Tsarist Power: Dimensions of the Political in the Russian Empire, 1800-1917 . Campus, 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38766-6 ( google.de [accessed January 5, 2020]).
2. ↑ Peter Day: The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy . Biteback Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-84954-946-2 ( google.de [accessed January 5, 2020]).
3. ↑ Robert Leinonen, Erika Voigt: Germans in St. Petersburg: a look at the German Evangelical Lutheran Smolensky Cemetery and European cultural history . Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1998, ISBN 978-3-932267-04-8 ( google.de [accessed on January 5, 2020]).
4. ^ Soviet Life . Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA, 1989 ( google.de [accessed January 5, 2020]).
5. ↑ Elena Nowak, Anja Otto, Vadim Sergeev: Discover St. Petersburg: the European metropolis and its old Russian neighbors . Trescher Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89794-101-4 ( google.de [accessed January 5, 2020]).
6. ^ Family tree of Louis Jules César Auguste Léontie Benois. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Герб Юлия Бенуа. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .