Count D. A. Sheremetev in the Undress Uniform of Her Majesty's Chevalier Guard Regiment

Count D.A. Sheremetev portrait usually resides in The Hermitage but was featured in the exhibition which traveled to several cities in the U.S. in 1998. The exhibition was the 'Nicholas and Alexandra, Last Imperial family of Tsarist Russia'.This portrait was featured in the Military section of the exhibit.

Two other portraits by Stember, Baroness D.E. Grevenits (#123) and S.M. Rayevskaya (#186) also traveled in the exhibit and were featured in the Court Life tableau.

The reference number to this painting in the Hermitage is #261 (inventory ЭРЖ-261, 134.5 x 89.5 cm) and the artists name is an alternate to Stember: Shtemberg.  The portrait formerly was displayed in the State Museum of Ethnography of the USSR according to a curator at The Hermitage who spoke to the family: Madame Augusta Pobedinskaya.

Provenance includes: entered the Hermitage in 1946 from the Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR. Previous Exhibition: St Petersburg 1994.

Biography : Dimitry Alexandrovich Sheremetev (1885-1963) was the son of A.D. Sheremetev. He studied at the Third St. Petersburg High School and in 1906 joined the Chevalier Guard Regiment as a volunteer.  In 1907 he was promoted to the rank of cornet in the Pskov Dragoons Regiment and was seconded to the Chevalier Guard Regiment.  In 1908 he married Countess D.A. Bobrinskaya, a lady in waiting and daughter of A.A. Bobrinsky, steward at the Imperial court. He emigrated after the Revolution and died in Paris on December 23, 1963.

The family has long known this portrait as "Count D. A. Sheremetev, Cornet of the Horse Guards Regiment." The Hermitage titles it as a portrait in the undress uniform of Her Majesty's Chevalier Guard Regiment, the regiment he joined in 1906, and that title is used here.

Note, the accompanying family member Countess Sheremetev, #200  on this site.