Portrait of Modest Rezvoi
1837–1838
- oil on canvas. 71,5 х 58,5
- Ж-5856
Received in 1952 from the State Committee on the Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, Moscow- Rezvoi family collection, Marienhoff Estate, Yamburgsky District, St Petersburg Province (till 1913)
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Location in museum
The St Michael’s Castle,
Room 204
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- Period Early 19th century
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Modest Dmitrievich Rezvoi (1807–1853) was a poet, writer, music critic, composer, cellist and amateur artist. A graduate of the Engineering Institute, he taught history there (1826–1835), served in the Department of Engineers (1838–1840), and was a major-general. He became the secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists after it was set up in 1820. From 1835 to 1837 he was editor-in-chief of the musical section of Adolphe Pluchart’s “Encyclopaedic Lexicon” (vol. 1–6). In 1839 he was elected a special honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. At the start of the 1840s he took part in publishing the “Dictionary of the Church Slavonic and Russian Language” (St Petersburg, 1847, 1864–1868, vol. 1–4). He was an associate member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences from 1843, and from 1849 he was Deputy Director of the Department of Construction in the Ministry of the Marine.