Grigory Gagarin

Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin (, - ) was a Russian painter, Major General and administrator. Biography Youth Grigory Gagarin was born in Saint Petersburg to the noble Rurikid princely Gagarin family. His father, Prince Grigory Ivanovich Gagarin (Saint Petersburg, – Tegernsee, 12 February 1837), was a Russian diplomat in France and later the ambassador to Italy. His paternal grandparents were Prince Ivan Sergeievich Gagarin and wife. His father married in Saint Petersburg in 1809 his mother Yekaterina Petrovna Soimonova (Saint Petersburg, 23 May 1790 – Moscow, ), daughter of Pyotr Alexandrovich Soimonov and wife Yekaterina Ivanovna Boltina. Thus until the age 13 the boy was with his family in Paris and Rome and then studied in the collegium Tolomei in Siena. Grigory did not receive a formal artistic education, but took private lessons from the famous Russian painter Karl Briullov who at that time lived in Italy.