Ethnicity Russian Earlier spellings Trubchevsky | Name Nikolai Troubetzkoy | |
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Current region Russia, France, United States, Germany, Switzerland Place of origin Grand Duchy of Lithuania Members Prince Dmitrii Troubetzkoy, d. 1625
Prince Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy, August 29, 1790 – November 22, 1860
Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy (Intra, Italy, 15 February 1866 — Pallanza, 12 February 1938)
Prince Nikolai Troubetzkoy (Moscow, April 16, 1890 – Vienna, June 25, 1938) | ||
Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy (1828–1900) was a Privy Counsellor and Chamberlain of the Russian Imperial Court. A relative of the Decembrist Prince Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy, he served as the President of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society. For many years, he was a close aide of the composer Nikolai Rubinstein.
In 1866, Troubetzkoy and Rubinstein created and founded the Moscow Conservatory.
In 1876, Troubetzkoy retired from the Directorate due to his appointment as Vice-Governor of Kaluga. He was elected an honorary member of the Moscow branch and in that position, he was approved by the Chairman of the Russian Musical Society Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich Romanov.
He owned the famous Akhtyrka estate near Moscow. It was built in the Moscow Empire style and finished in 1825. Rubinstein and Conservatory professors were frequent visitors and often practiced there. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky visited in 1867. Wasily Kandinsky and brothers Viktor and Apollinary Vasnetsov often painted the estate.