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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 564522, member: 5833&quot;][USER=8184]@Jivvy[/USER] [USER=33]@Figtree3[/USER] [USER=649]@bluumz[/USER]&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember this guy?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]172042[/ATTACH] </p><p>Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin</p><p><br /></p><p>I finally heard from Dr. Julia Kagan, as Lena, my contact at the Hermitage, had promised I would.&nbsp; Julia Kagan, now in her eighties, is a world famous authority on engraved gems.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Kagan is convinced the cameo is by Peter Egorovich Dobrokhotov.&nbsp; Only a little to be found on the Internet in English:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://persona.rin.ru/eng/view/f/0/23816/dobrokhotov-peter-egorovich" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://persona.rin.ru/eng/view/f/0/23816/dobrokhotov-peter-egorovich" rel="nofollow">https://persona.rin.ru/eng/view/f/0/23816/dobrokhotov-peter-egorovich</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and, if you scroll down a bit:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://lobortas.com/en/blog/precious-objects/pygmalions-of-modernity-glyptics-russian-style-becoming-181018" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lobortas.com/en/blog/precious-objects/pygmalions-of-modernity-glyptics-russian-style-becoming-181018" rel="nofollow">http://lobortas.com/en/blog/precious-objects/pygmalions-of-modernity-glyptics-russian-style-becoming-181018</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Kagan is basing her opinion in part on the similarities between the Olenin cameo and this one of Alexander Suvorov:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]172044[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Since Dobrokhotov died in 1831, think we can now say with confidence that the cameo of Olenin predates 1918.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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