Panina Sofia Vladimirovna

Definition: The last representative of the count branch of the Panin family, a large landowner, heir to the Marfino estate and mistress of the palace in Gaspra. Wife of diplomat A. A. Polovtsev
Years of life: 1871-1956
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Genus. in 1871 in Moscow. Granddaughter of the Minister of Justice V.N. Panin and industrialist S.I. Maltsova; niece of the poetess Tola Dorian. Graduated from the Higher Women's Courses in St. Petersburg. The owner of large estates in the Moscow region, Smolensk, Voronezh provinces and in the Crimea. She did not approve of autocracy, for which she was nicknamed the “Red Countess” in right-wing circles. Chairman of a number of charitable societies, member of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party, comrade of the Minister of State. charity of the Provisional Government.
Patron of culture and science. Through her efforts, the Capital Children's House and the Ligovsky People's House were opened. She worked on the Standing Commission for the Organization of Public Readings. She was a fellow chairman of the Society for Benefits to Students in Primary City Schools and the Russian Society for the Protection of Women.
Arrested on November 28, 1917, as one of the leaders of the Cadet Party. Already on December 10, 1917 she was elected to Honorary Members of the Russian Society of World Studies Lovers. Since 1920, in exile - in Czechoslovakia, then in the USA. She was buried in the cemetery of the Dormition Novodiveevo Convent in Nanuet, New York.

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Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Панина София Владимировна
1. Photo by S.V. Panina, 1910
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