Botkine (Mikhail Botkin, painter)
Also known as: Botkine
Overview
Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (1839-1914), Russian painter, engraver and collector (Wikipedia, «Mikhail Botkin»), brother of the physician Sergei Botkin (Botkin). Marie calls him «Michel Botkine» (030.0423, 31 March 1875) and, in Rome, «Botkine, le frère du médecin de l'impératrice … un laid qui s'occupe de peinture» (051.0354, 4 January 1876). Mon Journal indexes: «Botkine (M.), frère du médecin» (t.6), «Botkine (M.), peintre» (t.7, t.8). The t.4 index conflates the brothers («Botkine, (Michel) médecin»).
Relevance to Marie
- Nice, 1875: «le frère du médecin Botkine, un grand rustre prend le thé chez nous» (028.0189, 8 January); lunches with the family (030.0423).
- Rome, January-April 1876: he brings addresses of teachers and of «un sculpteur, le premier d'Italie» (051.0416, 052.0102), shows his studio («il a un très joli talent», 051.0430), introduces the family to the Russian artists of the Café Greco (055.0100, 055.1206: «il est riche, il est reçu partout à bras ouverts, et il passe sa vie dans les auberges avec des artistes infects»), and teases Marie about Pietro Antonelli (057.0188).
- Nice, June 1876: «Botkin m'a sournoisement parlé de mon cou, c'est vrai, pour un peintre ces teintes claires et douces sont une trouvaille rare» (062.0714).
Not the doctor
The paragraphs on the physician whom Maman consults at San Remo in 1874-75 (028.0077, 028.0079, 029.0193, 029.0198, 030.0109, 030.0124, 030.0433, 053.0240) belong to Botkin; retags queued (decision of 2026-10-22).
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