Anatolii Demidov (Person)

Title:

Anatolii Demidov

Source:

Kohl, 463; Bragina & Vasil’eva, Puteshestvie, 151-152

Birth Date:

1813

Death Date:

1870

Biographical Text:

The son of the ambassador to France, Anatolii Nikolaevich Demidov organized and funded a scientific expedition through Southern Russia and Crimea by a group of 22 French scholars interested in geology and metallurgy in 1837. The result was a four-volume description of the geography and mineral deposits of the region, including a geological map of Crimea, published in Russian and French 1853-55.

Demidov married Napoleon I’s niece and bought the princedom of San Donato near Florence in 1841.

Collection:

Biographical Sketches

Tags:

geology, metallurgy

Correlations

This Item	creator of	Item: Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie
This Item	owner of	Item: Kastropulo

Citation

“Anatolii Demidov,” Beautiful Spaces, accessed March 1, 2026, https://beautifulspaces.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/item/802.