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Countess E. K. Vorontsova, Chairman of N. W. Society of care for the poor people. The first half of the 1830’s.

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Countess E. K. Vorontsova, Chairman of N. W. Society of care for the poor people. The first half of the 1830’s.

Lithography. 168 × 125; 266 × 196.

Under image: J. Solferini f-cit. Lith d’A Braun.

Inv. G 17.

Braun, Alexander (?–?) — Lithographer, owner of the first private lithographic workshop in Odesa. He was born in Poland. He arrived in Odesa from Warsaw in 1829 and in the same year opened a workshop that worked until 1864. The owner of a private printing house (1840–1860).

Vorontsova, Elizaveta Ksaverivna (1792–1880) – a countess, the Serene Highness Princess (1852), wife of Mikhail Vorontsov, Governor General of Novorosiysk and Besarabia.

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