Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay

Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay (1737–1820) in 1794. Von Nicolay was a German-born academician and writer in Russia. Since the 1780s, he owned the Monrepos Manor in Vyborg, where he collected a remarkable library of Enlightenment literature. Nowadays, the collection can be found in the library of the University of Helsinki. Von Nicolay also built the famous landscape park on the Monrepos Manor grounds.

Artisti: Johann Baptist (senior). H2005091:3.