Narychkine
The family Narychkine is a famous Russian family, is allied at the reigning house, the tsar Alexis Ier having married in 1671 Natalia Narychkina, young girl of blood noble and a great beauty, who became mother of Pierre Large the.
Persecuted under the regency of the Sophie princess, the Narychkine family enjoys contrary to the all favor Pierre the Large one and her descendants.
Alexandre Narychkine, died in Paris in 1826, was the friend of the emperor Paul Ier, who called it his uncle; he joins together the functions of great chamberlain, chancellor and large marshal of the nobility. A long time in charge of the direction of the theaters, it attracted with Saint-Pétersbourg the first artists of Europe, especially the French artists.
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