Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff

Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff , 2nd prince de San Donato, is an industrialist and Russian collector born with Francfort-sur-le-Main the October 9th 1839 and died in Florence (Italy) the January 26th 1885.

Biography

Oldest son of Paul Nicholaievitch Demidoff (1798-1840), grandson of Nicolas Demidoff, Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff marries on June 1st 1867 the Princess Marie Elimovna Mestcherski (1844-1868). This one died two days after him to have given a son Elim Pavlovitch, born with Hietzing in the suburbs from Vienna (Austria) on August 6th 1868. This loss tested hard Paul Pavlovitch, who remained a long time inconsolable, spending long moments to the Villa San Donato in the part where the dresses of his wife were preserved to try to find her presence.

In 1871, it remaria with the princess Helene Petrovna Troubetzkoï (1853-1917) who gave him six children (V. Famille Demidoff). She decided that the Villa San Donato recalled to her husband too painful memories and committed it to move. They settled with the Villa Pratolino (called today Villa Demidoff), and ended up selling San Donato: November 5th 1881, the palate was yielded to Gastone Mestayer while the gardens were sold separately in Nemesio Papucci and Rosselli Del Turco. Most of the collections of art was dispersed on this occasion at the time of several public auctions. The collections of the Napoleonean museum created with the isle of Elba by Anatole Demidoff with the memories which, for the majority, had been yielded to him by his/her father-in-law the king Jerome, were also dispersed.

Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff still developed family fortune and consolidated it while inheriting his/her uncle Anatole to the death of this one, without legitimate posterity, in 1870. He then became second prince de San Donato and this title was recognized by the king Victor-Emmanuel II of Italy in 1872. It had a hundred factories in Russia, a million square kilometers of grounds, palates in Russia, France and Italy and was regarded as one of the richest men of Europe.

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