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Portrait of Count Sergey Uvarov

Creation period
the late 1830s — early 1840s
Place of сreation
the Russian Empire
Dimensions
60,5x49,5 cm
Technique
canvas, oil; painting
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Count Sergey Semyonovich Uvarov was statesman, member of the State Council, senator, Minister of National Education (1834–1849), President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and Chairman of the Main Directorate of Censorship. He was an acquaintance of Alexander Pushkin.

In his youth, when engaged in literary activities, Uvarov was one of the founders of “Arzamas”. It was through this organization that Uvarov met Pushkin. On September 27, 1832, during a lecture by Ivan Davydov at Moscow University, Uvarov introduced the poet to a group of students, saying, “And here is art itself.” The relationship between Pushkin and Uvarov was complex. Pushkin even wrote a satirical poem about Uvarov titled “On the Recovery of Lucullus” (1835). Other notable figures Uvarov knew included the poet’s uncle Vasily Lvovich Pushkin, Konstantin Batyushkov, Turgenev brothers, Pyotr Vyazemsky, and Vasily Zhukovsky.

Antonina, daughter of an Arzamas member, Dmitry Nikolayevich Bludov, described Uvarov as follows,

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A handsome man and mischievous child of aristocratic circles, witty, light-hearted, with a hint of vanity, yet highly educated and truly enlightened.

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Uvarov’s career in public service began in 1832 when he was appointed as a deputy minister, later becoming Minister of National Education. Senator Kastor Nikiforovich Lebedev described Uvarov as follows,

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Uvarov brought to the ministry more of brilliance than strength and led it with more of dexterity than benefit, refining the education system in quazi-literary reports, rather than in reality, meanwhile flattering the Sovereign with the phrase — Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.

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The famous triad “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality” was featured on Uvarov’s coat of arms as the motto. His contemporaries, not without acrimony, called him “the Minister of Depreciation of Education”, after he introduced a new censorship regulation.

The collection of the State Pushkin Museum includes documents belonging to Sergey Semyonovich Uvarov, for instance, a sealable envelope containing a handwritten note in iron gall nut ink, in French, from Uvarov to Prince Pyotr Borisovich Kozlovsky, inviting him to lunch. Additionally, there is a letter written by a clerk to the Minister of Justice, Dmitry Vasilyevich Dashkov.

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Portrait of Count Sergey Uvarov

Creation period
the late 1830s — early 1840s
Place of сreation
the Russian Empire
Dimensions
60,5x49,5 cm
Technique
canvas, oil; painting
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