Portrait of Vasily Obolensky from the workshop of George Dawe.[1] Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)
Native name
Василий Петрович Оболенский
Born
January 5, 1780
Died
February 5, 1834 (aged 54)
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Years of service
1785 – 1822 (with a break)
Rank
Major General
Battles/wars
Napoleonic Wars
Awards
Order of Saint Anna Order of Saint Vladimir Order of Saint George Golden Weapon "For Bravery" Pour le Mérite Order of the Red Eagle Order of the Sword
Children
Alexey Obolensky
Prince Vasily Petrovich Obolensky (1780–1834) was a major general in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars, from the Obolensky family.
^State Hermitage Museum. Western European Painting. Catalog / Edited by Vladimir Levinson–Lessing; editors Alexandra Krol, K. M. Semenova – 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded – Leningrad: Art, 1981 – Volume 2 – Page 258, Catalog No. 8095 – 360 Pages
Prince Vasily Petrovich Obolensky (1780–1834) was a major general in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars, from the Obolensky family. Born into...
father, Vasily I, only to be challenged by his uncle Dmitry Shemyaka. During this time, Moscow changed hands several times. At one point, Vasily was captured...
family Obolensky. Born June 4, 1819, in the family of Major General VasilyObolensky and Ekaterina Musina–Pushkina. Having received an excellent education...
name to Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Obolensky (+1523), nicknamed Repnya, i.e., "bad porridge". Like other Princes Obolensky, he descended from Mikhail Vsevolodovich...
against Lithuania. In 1495 or 1500 Obolensky was elevated to the nobility and in 1500 attended the wedding of Prince Vasily Kholmsky to the daughter of Ivan...
Obolensky (born 1984) Octavia Willing Davidovna Obolensky (born 1989) Sergei Ivanovich Obolensky (born 1960) Alexander Vasily Sergeyevich Obolensky (born...
and successor Vasily III formally annexing it in 1510. Prince Mikhail Andreyevich of Vereya, who had been awarded an appanage by Vasily II, was pressured...
his elder brother Vasily III ascended the throne, Andrey was just 14. Like his other brothers, he was forbidden to marry until Vasily could produce an...
guard officers Nikita Muraviev, Prince S. P. Trubetskoy and Prince Eugene Obolensky. The political aims of the more moderate Northern Society were a British-style...
the court of Ivan III. Princes Dolgorukov (claimed descent to Princes Obolensky) Princes Dondukovy (descendants of Kalmyk ruler Donduk-Ombo) Princes Dondukov-Izedinovy...
Boris Khilkov (1619–1620) Boris Lykov-Obolensky / Ivan Odoyevsky Jr. (1620–1624) Semyon Golovin (1624–1626) Vasily Morozov (1626–1628) Fyodor Buturlin (1632)...
and Vasily, and a daughter, Feodosiya. In 1456 he took the monastic vows under the name Iona and soon afterwards died. His eight-year-old son Vasily succeeded...
Vasily's reign, Hermogenes generally supported the tsar's efforts to pacify the country and anathematized Ivan Bolotnikov and his army. When Vasily was...
monument to Vasily Grigorievich Yakovenko was erected in the village of Taseevo. Vasily Yakovenko // Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) Vasily Yakovenko...
legend. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. p. 232. ISBN 9781576070635. Obolensky, Dmitri (1990). The Russian chronicles : a thousand years that changed...
Studio" appeared. The most famous of his collaborators was Prince Nikolai Obolensky. Count Muravyov was named among the successors of the Klever style in...
alliance with Vasily II by marrying off his daughter Maria of Tver to Ivan Vasilyevich. With the help of Saint Jonah, Boris promised Vasily to always support...
Apraksin 1712 – 1723 Vasily Saltykov 21 January 1734 – October 1740 Prince Yakov Shakhovskoy October 1740 – November 1740 Prince Vasily Nesvitsky 23 July...
historian and linguist, a prominent researcher of Sumer and Assyria Dimitri Obolensky (1918-2001), historian and Byzantinist Boris Farmakovsky (1870-1928),...
(1861–1917), wife of Prince Alexander Dmitrievich Obolensky (1847–1917), grandmother of Sir Dimitri Obolensky; Twin daughters (1862), stillborn or died shortly...
Romodanovsky Prince Vasily Golitsyn Natalya Naryshkina Prince Fyodor Golovin Count Boris Sheremetev Count Gavriil Golovkin Prince Vasily Dolgorukov Prince...
invited, and the Countess boasts about the gifts she has received: "Cornet Obolensky presented me a lovely set of 50 Chinese fragrant candles. I loved them...
Countess Maria Lvovna Tolstaya (1871–1906), wife of Nikolai Leonidovich Obolensky Count Peter Lvovich Tolstoy (1872–1873), died in infancy Count Nikolai...
Petersburg, where Anna studied and graduated from the school of Princess Anna Obolensky, learned drawing and painting with Zeidenberg, and also became fluent...
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