Artist: Michael Tikhonovich Tikhonov (1789 - 1862)
Portrait of Nam-Geauga Alan
COMMENTS
Source: Priyutino: An Anthology of Russian farm /Compilation and comments by LG Agamalyan and Igor Efimov. - St. Petersburg.: Publishing house "Pushkin House", 2008
Notes VA Olenina
My father ... [Olenin] was extremely friendly with Stroganovs, with the chairmen and Soltykovymi Lopukhin with Razumovsky, with Troschinsky, with Count Joseph Maistre, with r <pa> vom Severin, Muravyov with Mr. Buturlin with Kapnist with Hemnitserom with KM Borozdin with Charmoi, with the Indians we Jog, Brahmin, whose father had found nearly dead on the Fontanka, and brought him to himself, and he had lived for almost 11 years and died.
Source: Shelter and love music warmed /L. Timofeev. St Petersburg.: Nestor-History, 2007
VA Venison
[Olenin was friendly] with the Indians, we Jog, Brahmin, whose father had found nearly dead on the Fontanka, and brought him to himself, and he had lived for almost 11 years and died.
NLR OR.F.542 Ed.hr. 877. L. 123 vol.
Specifying VA Olenina on 11-year stay in an Indian house of her father's mistake, as evidenced by Alexei himself.
See portrait
[The inscription on the back]: Portrait of the Indian Brahmins, who came from India in the field of Malwa, the city Uderpura, possession Peshwa, in St. Petersburg in 1816. Name - Nam-Jag Alan. He died in our house April 29, 1818.
Olenin - D. P. Popov
May 28, 1817
[...] Indian Brahmin We Jog, who now lives in my house and I showed in this book of paintings, representing the American Indian, playing upon this instrument, immediately called me shalt same name [...].
Olenin AN The archaeological works.
Olenin - E. Timkovsky
St. Petersburg, January 3, 1824
[...], This Indian lived with me for about fifteen years and died here in my home. Neschastny this wanderer (an ardent follower of the Indian belief in the 9th Avatar, Krishna called) came here was to the Indian city Udepura ishodataystvovaniya benefits for the restoration to the superstitious Indian temples near the Gulf, now that the Russian, Bakhit city [Baku], over the oil wells there that many Indians honored for the sacred fire. We aforementioned Jog died at 29 year of his age from the consequences of severe cold. He was a strict Brahmin example of patience, kindness, and abstinence. The deceased had me a great love and power of attorney ...
Timkovskii EF Travel to China through Mongolia in 1820 and 1821, GG