Pavel Pavlovitch Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato, was a Russian industrialist, jurist, philanthropist and nobleman of the Demidov family. His parents were Aurora Karamzin and her husband Pavel Demidov. His first marriage was on 1 June 1867 to princess Marie Elimovna Mestcherski (1844-1868). She died two days after giving birth to a son, Elim Pavlovitch, at Hietzing in the suburbs of Vienna on 6 August 1868.

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  • Pavel Pavlovitch Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato, was a Russian industrialist, jurist, philanthropist and nobleman of the Demidov family. His parents were Aurora Karamzin and her husband Pavel Demidov. His first marriage was on 1 June 1867 to princess Marie Elimovna Mestcherski (1844-1868). She died two days after giving birth to a son, Elim Pavlovitch, at Hietzing in the suburbs of Vienna on 6 August 1868. Her loss had a lasting effect on Pavel, who remained inconsolable for a long time, spending a long while in the room in the Villa San Donato where his wife's dresses were kept to try to recover her presence. In 1871 he remarried to princess Hélène Petrovna Troubetzkoï (1853-1917), with whom he had six children (including Aurora, mother of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia). They decided San Donato was too full of memories of his first wife and so moved to Villa Pratolino (now known as Villa Demidoff). They ended up selling San Donato, and it was ceded on 5 November 1881 to Gastone Mestayer, with the gardens sold separately to Nemesio Papucci and Rosselli Del Turco. A large part of the enormous Demidov collection of artworks housed in 14 rooms at San Donato were thus dispersed in several sales and memorable public auctions, even the works gathered in the "musée napoléonien" created on Elba by his uncle Anatole Demidov and the souvenirs that had (mostly) been ceded to Anatole by his father-in-law Jérôme Bonaparte. Owning hundreds of factories in Russia, millions of square kilometres of land and palaces in Russia, France and Italy, Pavel was considered as one of the richest men in Europe. He developed the family fortunes and inherited Anatole's title of Prince of San Donato after the latter's death without legitimate issue in 1870 (with the title recognised by king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy two years later). He served with the Red Cross rather than the Russian military forces during the Russo-Turkish War and in 1883 he published the pro-Jewish ""The Jewish Question in Russia".
  • Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff, 2 prince de San Donato, est un industriel et collectionneur russe né à Francfort-sur-le-Main le 9 octobre 1839 et mort à Florence le 26 janvier 1885.
  • Figlio di Paolo Demidoff e di Aurora Stjernwall, si sposò il 1º giugno 1867 con la principessa Marie Elimovna Mestcherski (1844-1868). La coppia venne dalla Russia alla Villa San Donato presso Firenze, appartenente alla famiglia Demidoff, dopo la luna di miele. La giovane sposa però morì di parto appena un anno dopo a Hietzing nei pressi di Vienna. La tragedia lo abbatté e si ritirò in solitudine a Villa San Donato, dove cercava di evocare la sua presenza. Nel 1871 si risposò con la principessa Hélène Petrovna Troubetzkoï (1853-1917), dalla quale ebbe altri sei figli. Per evitare di rivivere ricordi dolorosi vendette la Villa San Donato e i suoi arredi nel 1881 e comprò la Villa di Pratolino, già appartenuta ai Medici e ai Lorena e versante da molti anni in un grave stato di abbandono. Essendo ormai stata abbattuta la villa vera e propria, già creata da Bernardo Buontalenti per Francesco I de' Medici, ricavò dall'edificio secondario delle paggerie una nuova villa, mentre la tenuta diventava il più grande parco all'inglese di Firenze. Per questo la villa e il parco sono oggi chiamati Villa Demidoff. Dal punto di vista degli affari egli fu un abile industriale e riuscì a far crescere ulteriormente la produzione di armi dell'impero economico dei Demidoff, pur dopo gli eccellenti risultati di suo zio Anatolio. I suoi possedimenti si estendevano in Russia, in Francia e in Italia e veniva indicato come uno degli uomini più ricchi del continente europeo. Negli ultimi anni di vita si ritirò a Firenze, dove morì il 26 gennaio 1885.
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  • 1870-1885
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  • Pavel Pavlovitch Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato, was a Russian industrialist, jurist, philanthropist and nobleman of the Demidov family. His parents were Aurora Karamzin and her husband Pavel Demidov. His first marriage was on 1 June 1867 to princess Marie Elimovna Mestcherski (1844-1868). She died two days after giving birth to a son, Elim Pavlovitch, at Hietzing in the suburbs of Vienna on 6 August 1868.
  • Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff, 2 prince de San Donato, est un industriel et collectionneur russe né à Francfort-sur-le-Main le 9 octobre 1839 et mort à Florence le 26 janvier 1885.
  • Figlio di Paolo Demidoff e di Aurora Stjernwall, si sposò il 1º giugno 1867 con la principessa Marie Elimovna Mestcherski (1844-1868). La coppia venne dalla Russia alla Villa San Donato presso Firenze, appartenente alla famiglia Demidoff, dopo la luna di miele. La giovane sposa però morì di parto appena un anno dopo a Hietzing nei pressi di Vienna. La tragedia lo abbatté e si ritirò in solitudine a Villa San Donato, dove cercava di evocare la sua presenza.
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  • Pavel Pavlovich Demidov
  • Paul Pavlovitch Demidoff
  • Paolo II Demidoff
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