Benois family

The Benois family (Russian: Бенуа, romanized: Benua) was a family of prominent 19th and 20th century Russian artists, musicians and architects, descended from French confectioner Louis Jules (Leonty Nikolaevich) Benois (1770/1772?–1822), cook-confectioner to the Duke of Montmorency, who moved to Russia in 1794 after the French Revolution and became a royal headwaiter.

Famous members of the Benois family include:

Portrait of the Benois family, c.1816, showing parents Louis & Ekaterina Benois surrounded by their eight children Jeannette (b.1798), Mikhail (b.1799), Leonty (b.1801), Alexandrina (b.1803), Elizaveta (b.1806), Elena (b.1807), Nicholas (b.1813) and Francois (b.1814).