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Shuvalov (Шувалов) Ivan Ivanovich
(1727—1797)

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre, university, and academy of arts were instituted with his active participation. He was born in Moscow, the only son of Ivan Menshoi Shuvalov, an army captain who died when the boy was ten, and Tatiana... More...

Guinea, 2011, Ivan Shuvalov