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Family of prominent 19th- and 20th-century Russian artists, musicians and architects
The
Benois family
(
Russian
:
Бенуа
,
romanized
:
Benua
) was a family of prominent 19th and 20th century Russian artists, musicians and architects, descended from French confectioner Louis Jules (Leonty Nikolaevich) Benois (1770/1772??1822), cook-confectioner to the
Duke of Montmorency
, who moved to Russia in 1794 after the
French Revolution
and became a royal headwaiter.
Famous members of the Benois family include:
- Mikhail Benois (1799?1861), colonel, tutor at the Corps of Pages.
- Leonty Benois (1801?1883), "the first doctor" in St.Petersburg.
- Nicholas Leontievich Benois
(1813?1898), Russian architect. Designed several buildings for the Imperial Family at
Peterhof
.
- Nicholas' son
Albert Nikolayevich Benois
(1852?1936), Russian water-colourist.
- Nicholas' son
Leon Nikolayevich "Leonty" Benois
(1856?1928), Russian architect. He helped design the St. Petersburg Court Choir Chapel (now the Mikhail Glinka Academic Choir.
- Nikolai's dtr. Camilla Nikolayevna Benois married a British immigrant, Matthew Edward Edwards. Their daughter Camilla Matveevna Edwards married
Armenian
architect
Alexander Tamanian
(1878?1936), whose sons Georgi Tamanian (1910?1993) and Julius (Yuliy) Tamanian (1922-1993) were also prominent Armenian architects.
- Nicholas' dtr. Ekaterina Nikolayevna "Katherine" Benois (
b.
1850
) married sculptor Eugene Lanceray (aka. "Yevgeny Alexandrovich Lansere") (1848?1886).
- Their son
Yevgeny Yevgenievich Lanceray
(1875?1946), Russian graphic artist, painter, illustrator.
- Their son
Nikolay Lanceray
(1879?1942), Russian architect, illustrator and biographer.
- Their dtr.
Zinaida Serebriakova
nee Lanceray (1884?1967), Russian portrait painter, was mother of architect Yevgeny Borisovich Serebriakov (1906?1990) and artists Alexander Borisovich Serebriakov (1907?1994), Tatiana Borisovna Serebriakova (1912?1989), and Ekaterina Borisovna Serebriakova (1913?2014).
- Nicholas' son
Alexander Nikolayevich Benois
(1870?1960), painter, theatrical designer, art
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