Portrait of the count f. AT. Rostopchina with billiard kiy in his hand

The artist is Tonchi

Rostopchin (Rastopchin) Fedor Vasilievich (1763/65–1826) – Count of the Russian Empire since 1799. Camer-junker, chamberlain at the court of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich. Favorite Paul I. On the day of his entry into the throne, he was promoted to Major General and Adjutant General. Acting Privy Counselor (1798). President of the College of Foreign Affairs, the Great Chancellor of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, member of the State Council (1800). I fell out of disgust and lived in Moscow from 1801. Governor-General of Moscow in 1812. Became famous in the fight against Napoleon as the organizer of the Moscow militia. August 30, 1814 resigned. The patron saint of the art gallery, an honorary lover of IAX (1799). Died January 18, 1826. Buried in Moscow in Pyatnitsky Cemetery.

Dates back on the basis of the cut of the dress and the nature of the habitable. Count f. AT. Rostopchin was a big lover of Billiard. According to the memoirs of the Moscow post-director A. I AM. Bulgakova, in the summer of 1812 at Count F. AT. Rostopchina gathered male society "fight" On the billiard.