Графиня Прасковья Васильевна Мусина-Пушкина (урожденная Долгорукова; 1754–1826) – с начала 1770-х годов жена генерал-аншефа, впоследствии фельдмаршала Валентина Платоновича Мусина-Пушкина (1735–1804). Сразу по восшествии Павла I на престол, в ноябре 1796 года была первой пожалована в статс-дамы, а при коронации императора в апреле 1797 года получила орден Св. Екатерины. Изображена с орденом Св. Екатерины малого креста и знаком статс-дамы — миниатюрным портретом императрицы Марии Федоровны на голубой ленте. Портретная галерея Русского музея. Лица России. СПб. 2012. С. 105.
По отзывам, в молодости была очень хорошенькой и отличалась любезностью. В свете ее побаивались за властный и мужественный характер. Имея всего одного сына, Василия, чтобы увеличить его и без того огромное состояние, женила его на своей племяннице, богатой наследнице последней графине Брюс Екатерине Яковлевне, причем исходатайствовала у Павла I разрешение сына присоединить к фамилии и фамилию "Брюс". Он жил с женой в разъезде. Был тесно связан с литературными и театральными кругами, хорошо знаком с А. С. Пушкиным. Имел трех внебрачных дочерей от актрисы Нимфодоры Семеновны Семеновой (1788–1876), которую содержал долгие годы.
После смерти мужа Прасковья Васильевна построила в московском Симоновом монастыре, где он был похоронен, храм во имя святого мученика Валентина, попутно пожертвовав монастырю 20000 рублей.
Аналогичный портрет работы неизвестного художника находился в собрании А. В. Шаховского в с. Белая Колпь, Московской губернии. Подобный же портрет работы неизвестного художника имеется в Азербайджанском государственном музее искусств им. Р. М. Мустафаева в Баку.
Антонелли Дмитрий Иванович
The countess Praskovya Vasilyevna Musina-Pushkina (née Dolgorukova; 1754–1826) since the beginning of the 1770s was the wife of General-in-chief, later Field Marshal, Valentin
Platonovich Musin-Pushkin (1735–1804). Immediately after the enthronement of Paul I in November of 1796 she was the first to become a lady-in-waiting, and at the coronation of the Emperor in April 1797 she received the order of St. Catherine. She is pictured with the order of St. Catherine of the Lesser cross and the sign of the lady-in-waiting — a miniature portrait of the Empress Maria Fyodorovna on a blue ribbon. By all accounts, in her youth she was very pretty and distinguished by her courtesy. In the high society she was feared for her powerful and courageous character. She had only one son, Vasily, and to increase his already vast fortune, she married him to her niece, the rich heiress and the last countess Ekaterina Yakovlevna Bruce, and asked Paul I to permit her son to add the name "Bruce" to his family name. They lived separatedly. Vasily Musin-Pushkin was close to the literary and theatrical circles and knew A. S. Pushkin well. He had three natural daughters with the actress Nymphadora Semyonovna Semenova (1788–1876), who was his mistress for many years.
After her husband's death Praskovya Vasilievna built in the Moscow Simonov monastery where he was buried the Church in the name of the Holy Martyr Valentine and also donated 20000 roubles to the monastery.
A duplicate portrait by an unknown artist was stored in the collection of A. V. Shakhovsky in the village Belaya Colp, Moscow province. Another similar portrait by an unknown artist is kept in Baku in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan named after R. M. Mustafayev.
Antonelli Dmitry Ivanovich 1791, ? – 1842, Saint PetersburgPainter, portraitist. In 1812 he graduated from G.I. Ugryumov’s class of historical painting at the Academy of Arts with the diploma of the 1st degree and the title of artist of the 14th class. During his training he received the following medals: the second and the first silver (for drawings from nature in 1809 and 1810), and the second and the first gold for the execution of programs “A Generous Deed of Tsar Ivan Vasilievich" (1811) and "The Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Kozma Minin Persuades of the Citizens to Donate All Their Property for the Salvation of the Fatherland" (1812). Remained at the Academy of Arts as a scholar until 1817.
Received the title of academician in 1820 for the excellent portrait of the rector of sculpture I. P. Martos, which was included in the collection of portraits of members of the Academy of Arts and was transferred to the Russian Museum in 1923. For the public hall of the Saint Petersburg Board of Trustees Antonelli made four portraits: those of Catherine II, Nicholas I and empresses Alexandra Fyodorovna and Maria Fyodorovna. In addition to portrait painting, he performed images of saints for churches. He painted icons for the iconostasis of the Church of the descent of the Holy Spirit at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra – "Crucifixion", or "The Savior Who Died on the Cross" and "Ecce Homo" (a copy of Guido Reni), and the image of the four evangelists in the pendentives of the St. Paul's Church at the Alexander manufacture.
