Carl Gustaf Wrede af Elimä

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Kaptenlöjtnant vid 14:nde sjöekipaget. Tjänstgjorde vid Aralsjön. Avsked 1864 med hovråds rang.

Alexander och Tatjana Wrede hade tre barn. De är i Ättartavlorna nämnda som avlidna som unga, 1867, 1871 och 1879. I ett arvsskifte 1888 efter Alexander W:s ogifta moster (Lamoni) nämns de däremot som levande!

Porträttet av Carl Gustaf Wrede som ung sjöofficer är målat av EVGRAF SEMENOVICH SOROKIN (1821-1892) signerat 1843 och det försäljs på Stockholms Auktionsverk 12 juni 2012 (utropspris 300.000 - 400.000 SEK).

EVGRAF SEMENOVICH SOROKIN 1821-1892 Portrait of Friherre Carl Gustaf Wrede af Elimä Signed and dated 1843. Oil on canvas, 30,5 x 25,5 cm. One of the difficulties presented by the Russian art market is the result of the turbulent twentieth century endured by Russia; revolution, civil war, foreign invasion and emigration, not to mention willful destruction and the Bolshevik attitude to personal property, have so often separated paintings from their histories. Conversely, one of the great pleasures of searching for Russian antiques in Scandinavia and Finland is that the relative stability there frequently brings to our days stories that have roots in the Russia of another age, depicts Friherre Carl Gustaf Wrede af Elimä (circa 1824- circa 1868), the brother of the present owner's great grandfather. As often happened at the time with children of the nobility, the young Carl Gustaf was sent to St. Petersburg to join the Alexander regiment at a very young age. While there, he must have commissioned a portrait of himself by the painter Evgraf Sorokin (1821-1892), probably to send back to his family far away. The portrait brilliantly captures the slightly frightened face of a young man - hardly more than a boy - in his impressive uniform. Sorokin was also a young man when he painted it, and the picture brings to life the St. Petersburg of Nicholas I. He went on to have a long and glorious career, and was later to become famous as the director of the team who painted the wall paintings of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, the one blown up by Stalin, and rebuilt by Yeltsin.