Count D. A. Sheremetev, Cornet of the Horse Guards Regiment

Count D.A. Sheremetev portrait usually resides in The Hermitage but was featured in the exhibition which traveled to several cities in the U.S. in 1998. The exhibition was the 'Nicholas and Alexandra, Last Imperial family of Tsarist Russia'.This portrait was featured in the Military section of the exhibit.

Two other portraits by Stember, Baroness D.E. Grevenits (#123) and S.M. Rayevskaya (#186) also traveled in the exhibit and were featured in the Court Life tableau.

The reference number to this painting in the Hermitage is #261 and the artists name is an alternate to Stember: Shtemberg.  The portrait formerly was displayed in the State Museum of Ethnography of the USSR according to a curator at The Hermitage who spoke to the family: Madame Augusta Pobedinskaya.

Provenance includes: acquired from the State Museum of Ethnography of the USSR in 1941. Previous Exhibition: St Petersburg 1994.

Biography : Dimitry Alexandrovich Sheremetev (1885-?) was the son of A.D. Sheremetev. He studied at the Third St. Petersburg High School and in 1906 joined the Horse-Guards Regiment as a volunteer.  In 1907 he was promoted too the rank of cornet in the Pskow Dragoons Regiment and was seconded to the Horse Guards Regiment.  In 1908 he married Countess D.A. Bobrinskaya, a lady in waiting and daughter of A.A. Bobrinsky, steward at the Imperial court.

Note, the accompanying family member Countess Sheremetev, #200  on this site.