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Benois [Benua].
Russian family of artists, of French descent. The architect (1) Nikolay Benois, who married the daughter of the architect AL’BERT KAVOS, was the father of the painter Albert Benois (1852–1937), the architect (2) Leonty Benois and the painter (3) Alexandre Benois, who were part of a circle that comprised the leading arbiters of aesthetic matters in St Petersburg for at least two decades before the Russian Revolution of 1917. This position was consolidated by the marriage of Nikolay’s daughter, Yekaterina, to the sculptor Yevgeny (Aleksandrovich) Lansere (1848–86): their children were the architect Nikolay Lansere, the painter Yevgeny Lansere (see LANSERE) and the painter ZINAIDA SEREBRYAKOVA. The following members have entries:
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