RUSSIAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY Governess of the Zinoviev family

watercolour on paper 20,5 x 17 cm It is probably the Zinoviev family associated with Lidia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907). Through her mother, Sofia Alexandrovna von Weimarn, she was a descendant of Abram Petrovich Hannibal, the maternal ancestor of Alexander Pushkin.