(b Intra, nr Lake Maggiore, 15 Feb 1866; d Suna di Novara, 12 Feb 1938). Italian sculptor. He was the second son of the Russian prince Peter Troubetzkoy and the American lyric singer Ada Winans. He grew up in a family open to the influence of the Milanese ‘scapigliatura’ tendency of the artistic avant-garde (see SCAPIGLIATI, GLI). Among the visitors to the family villa was the painter Daniele Ranzoni, whose portraits included Gigi, Piero and Paolo Troubetzkoy (1873; for illustration see RANZONI, DANIELE). Though basically self-taught, he was influenced by the sculptor Giuseppe Grandi who belonged to that school. In such notable early works as his portrait of Giovanni Segantini (1896; Verbania, Mus. Paesaggio), Troubetzkoy took from Grandi the busy modelling and impastoed surfaces designed to catch the air and light in different ways. In 1898 he moved to Russia, where his work was close stylistically to that of the Wanderers. He also made friends with Leo Tolstoy, whose portrait he made in busts and small equestrian statues. In Moscow he taught sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in St Petersburg he produced the equestrian monument (1899–1909) to Tsar Alexander III in Znamenskaya Square (now in the State Russian Museum). He won the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris and in 1904 contributed a group of bronzes to the Salon d’Automne.

• Troubetzkoy, Paolo
  • Bugatti: (2) Rembrandt Bugatti
  • Italy, §IV, 5: Neo-classical to early modernist sculpture, c 1750–c 1900
  • Matveyev, Aleksandr
  • Ranzoni, Daniele, §1: Life and work
  • Russia, §XVI: Art education
  • Statuette, §III, 2(ii): 19th and 20th centuries: Art Nouveau
  • Talashkino
  • Tenisheva, Mariya
  • groups and movements
    • Scapigliati, Gli
  • pupils
    • Goncharova, Natal’ya, §1(i): Life and work, 1898–1913
  • works
    • Conconi, Luigi