Anna Artemevna Buturlina

Anna Vorontsova was born in 1777, the second daughter of Count Artemiy Ivanovich Vorontsov and his wife Countess Praskovya Feodorovna Kvashnina-Samarina.

[1] Artemiy Vorontsov was a senator, Active Privy Councillor, and owner of the Voronovo estate [ru], as well as the godfather of poet Alexander Pushkin.

[2] In 1793 Anna married her second cousin, Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin [ru], a noted bibliophile and director of the Hermitage Museum.

[1] She was painted by a number of the leading artists of the age, including a portrait by Fyodor Rokotov in 1793, now in the Tambov Art Gallery [ru].

[6] Another portrait, by Feodosy Yanenko [ru] after an earlier work by Vladimir Borovikovsky, is held by the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.