Peter Alexandrovich Saburov

Among the prize works was the headless bronze of an Apollo or Dionysus found in the sea off the coast of Salamis.

During his retirement in Saint Petersburg, the Hermitage Museum purchased part of the remainder of his collection,[4] about 1909[5] including 233 molded terracotta statuettes, which he bought in the 1870s when treasure hunters had plundered the necropolis of ancient Tanagra (Boeotia).

After employment in the Chancellery (1857–59), he worked in Munich, and then in England, where he stayed for eleven years, moving in upper-class British society.

Then he was posted to Berlin from 1880 to 1884, which involved him at the center of the secret negotiations that led to the unpublished pact, the League of the Three Emperors.

His son Alexander Saburov, the former Civil Governor of St. Petersburg, was arrested by the Bolsheviks in Moscow in 1918 and shot in 1919.