Orest Adamovich Kiprenskii (1778-1836)
Portrait of Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin, 1813
Italian pencil, paper
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Olenin A.N., (1763/64-1843), Historian, Artist, StatesmanВ 

OLENIN Alexey Nikolaevich (1763 or 1764-1843, St. Petersburg) statesman, archaeologist, philologist, graphic artist, member of the Russian Academy (1786), honorary member of the Academy of Arts (1804), president of the Academy of Arts (1817-43), honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1809), privy counsellor (1810). He lived in St. Petersburg 1774. He graduated the Page Corps in 1783 and studied abroad. 1797, he was in charge of the Mint.