Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ivan Petrovich Argunov was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting. He was a serf belonging to Count Sheremetev and had grown in the family of his uncle, Semyon Mikhaylovich Argunov who was a steward of princess Cherkassky and later a major-domo for count Sheremetev. For many years Semyon managed Sheremetev's house on Millionnaya street in Saint-Petersburg and that was the house where Ivan grew up.

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