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Prince Peter Soltykoff

Header: Prince Peter Soltykoff
Also known as: Prince Peter Soltykoff; primary name: Soltykoff, Peter; other name: Saltykov, Petr; other name: Soltikoff, Pierre
Details: individual; collector; Russian; Male
Other dates: 1840-1861 (active)
Biography: Art collector; grandson of Count (later Prince) Nikolay Ivanovich Soltykoff (1736-1816), and son of Prince Dmitri Nikolaevich Soltykoff (1767-1826); to Paris in 1840 where assembled an important collection of medieval objects, which was auctioned on 8 April- 1 May 1861 at Hôtel Drouot, Paris.