Nikolai Nikitich Demidov

Nikolay Nikitich Demidov (1798-1840). Collection Alexandre Tissot Demidoff. alt=Ostrogozhskin historiallinen ja taidemuseo, joka on nimetty A.I. I. N. Kramskoy Nikolaiy Nikitich Demidov. Portrait on ceramic by an unknown artist, 1820´s. Kramskoy Historical and Art Museum, Ostrogozhsky. Nikolai Nikitich Demidov (9 October / November 1773 Chirkovitsi village near Saint Petersburg – 22 April 1828) was a Russian industrialist, privy councillor, diplomat, lieutenant colonel, collector, and arts patron of the Demidov family.

Life The son of Nikita Akinfiyevich Demidov (1724–1786) and his third wife Alexandra Evtikhievna Safonova (1745-1778), Nikolai Demidov inherited his father's industrial empire aged only 15 and began to spend so recklessly that the government had to send in the receivers. He inherited the iron and coppersmelting plants of Nizhny Tagil, Nizhny Saldinsky, Verkhne-Saldinsky, Tšerno Istochensky, Visimo Utkinsky, Visimo Shaitansky, Laisky and Vyisky and with them also 11,550 serfs (souls).

He also had one illegitimate daughter Natalie Wodimov (19 February 1819 - 6 April 1876 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg).

Elisabeta Alexandrovna Stroganova. Portrait by Robert Lefèvre (c. 1800–1805), Saint-Petersburg, Hermitage