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Paolo Troubetzkoy, born in Intra in 1866, was a well-known portraitist of the Scapigliati group. After moving to Milan in 1884 to attend the studies of Donato Barcaglia and Ernesto Bazzaro, he continued his training mainly as a self-taught, dedicating himself to the observation of live models and the creation of fast and fluid sculptures. Read the full biography

Paolo Troubetzkoy, born in Intra in 1866, was a well-known portraitist of the Scapigliati group. After moving to Milan in 1884 to attend the studies of Donato Barcaglia and Ernesto Bazzaro, he continued his training mainly as a self-taught, dedicating himself to the observation of live models and the creation of fast and fluid sculptures. In 1898, Troubetzkoy moved to Russia, where he was offered a professorship of sculpture at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. Here, in 1899, he met Leo Tolstoy, for whom he created an important series of portraits. In 1901, he won the tender for the construction of the monument to Tsar Alexander III. During the First World War, the artist moved to Hollywood, where he exhibited extensively and created sculptures linked to cinema and American history, such as American Indians on horseback. Returning to Paris in 1921, he created numerous war memorials for Italy, but continued to travel and work despite his health being compromised by severe anemia. Troubetzkoy died in Pallanza in 1938.