Дом графини Софьи Владимировны Паниной - 1913/The House of Countess S. V. Panina - 1913

Дом графини Софьи Владимировны Паниной (наб.Фонтанки,7) 1913 г. The house of Countess Sofia Vladimirovna Panina (Fontanka River Embankment ,7). 1913 Countess Sofia was an heiress, philanthropist and founder of the Ligov People’s House in St. Petersburg. Count Viktor Nikitch Panin, her paternal grandfather, was one of Russia’s richest serfowners as well as Minister of Justice for over twenty five years. Panina’s father died in 1872 when she was not even two years old, leaving her the principal heir of the enormous Panin Panina’s paternal grandmother, Countess Natalia Pavlovna Panina, successfully petitioned Emperor Alexander III to remove eleven-year-old Sofia from her mother’s custody, and enrolled her at the Catherine Institute in St Petersburg, one of the elite boarding schools for noble girls. It was not until the February Revolution of 1917 that Sofia started playing a role in politics. She wrote in her memoirs: “I never belonged to any political p