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3 unusual facts about Sheremetev


Olga Potocka

They had one daughter named Sofia (1829-1894), who later came to be the wife of count P.P. Sheremetev.

Sheremetev

Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, a serf woman belonging to the Sheremetev family, who became an actress in the Sheremetev Serf Theatre and later married Nikolai Sheremetev

Yury Baryatinsky

Baryatinsky, however, refused to do so, answering with historical words: "I only take orders from his Majesty, not from Sheremetev. There are many Sheremetevs in Moscow!".


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Fedor Sheremetev

Patriarch Filaret, after his return from captivity in 1619, pushed Sheremetev aside from state affairs, for the latter disapproved Filaret's straightforward anti-Polish policy.

Ivan Argunov

He was a serf belonging to Count Sheremetev and had grown in the family of his uncle, Semyon Mikhaylovich Argunov, who was a steward of princess Cherkassky and later a major-domo for count Sheremetev.

Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre

He was active in Moscow (1767), and later in St. Petersburg (beginning in 1768), where he taught at the Imperial Academy of Arts and painted portraits of family members of Petr Borisovich Sheremetev—one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time.

Ostankino

Ostankino Palace, a former summer residence and private opera theater of Sheremetev family


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