Wrangel N. N. (1880-1915), Art Historian

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WRANGEL Nikolay Nikolaevich (1880-1915) a baron, art historian. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1897. Wrote about the history of Russian artistic culture from the 18th to the beginning of the 19th centuries, including sculpture, painting, portrait miniatures, and provincial estate culture. First to write a biography about artist F. S. Rokotov. Wrangel organised a number of artistic and historical exhibitions in St. Petersburg (150 Years of Russian Portrait Painting, 1902; Lomonosov and the Time of Empress Elizaveta, 1912). Wrangel established the journal Starye Gody together with P. P. Weiner in 1907. He was one of the main contributing authors to this journal. Joined the Board of Directors of the Museum of Old St. Petersburg in 1909. Honorary Member of the Society of Architect-Artists from 1910. Wrangel worked at the Hermitage Picture Gallery from 1906. He edited the journal Apollon together with S. K. Makovsky in 1910-12. During the fighting of the war in 1914-15, he arranged front-line ambulances for the Society of the Red Cross. Wrangel died in Warsaw and was buried at Nikolskoe Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (tomb stone not preserved). In 1902-05, Wrangel lived at 65 Sergievskaya Street (today Tchaikovskogo Street). In 1908-14, Wrangel lived at 27 Basseinaya Street (today Nekrasova Street). Wrangel's written works include Old Country Estates: Essays on Russian Nobility's Cultural History (St. Petersburg, 2000; second edition, corrected and augmented); Articles on the History of Russian Art (St. Petersburg, 2001).

References: Золотинкина И. А. К характеристике художественной жизни Петербурга начала XX века: Деятельность Н. Н. Врангеля // Краеведческие записки: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1995. Вып. 3. С. 137-139.

O. L. Leykind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Makovsky Sergey Konstantinovich
Rokotov Fedor Stepanovich
Weiner Peter Petrovich
Wrangel Nikolay Nikolaevich, Baron
Nekrasova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Tchaikovskogo St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 65
Золотинкина И. А. К характеристике художественной жизни Петербурга начала XX века: Деятельность Н. Н. Врангеля // Краеведческие записки: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1995
Старые усадьбы: Очерки истории рус. дворян. культуры. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. СПб., 2000
Статьи по истории русского искусства. СПб., 2001 Starye Gody (The Bygone Years), journal
Old Petersburg, Society
Hermitage
Society of Architectural Artists, creative society
Apollon (Apollo), journal
Nikolskoe Cemetery