Nikita Lobanov
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{{Infobox person
|name = Nikita Lobanov
| native_name =Никита Дмитриевич Лобанов-Ростовский
|image = Н.Д. Лобанов-Ростовский БИО.jpg
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|1|6|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Sofia, Bulgaria
|death_date =
|death_place =
|other_names =
|spouse = 1. Nina Georges-Picot
2. June Lobanov-Rostovsy (née Marsham-Towshend)
|known_for = collection of Russian Stage and Costume Design
|alma_mater = Oxford (BA, MA, geology, 1958), Columbia University (MS, economic geology, 1960), New York University (MBA, accounting, 1962)
|occupation = geologist, banker
|nationality = Russian Federation, United States
}}
Prince Nikita Dmitrievich Lobanov-Rostovsky ({{langx|ru|Никита Лобанов, Никита Дмитриевич Лобанов-Ростовский}}) (born 6 January 1935), known as Nikita Lobanov, is a Russian and American geologist, banker, and notable art collector of Russian stage design of the period of 1880–1930 (in particular designs for Ballets Russes).
Biography
Lobanov was born on 6 January 1935 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to Russian émigré parents, Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (1907-1948) and his wife, Irina Vasilievna Vyrubova (1911-1957), both members an old Russian nobility.https://rgf.bg.ac.rs/Dokumenta/Publikacije/Geoloski%20anali/GABP%2076%20-%202015.pdf He is a collector of costume and stage designs by Russian artists (1890–1930s), including Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He has organised numerous exhibitions, including one at the Metropolitan Museum (1967). He has written several works (Russian Painters and the Stage (1969), Trade Financing (1980) and Banking (1982), etc.).[http://www.russika.ru/lobanov/english.htm NIKITA D. LOBANOV]
In 1987 he donated 80 works of art to the Museum of Personal Collections of the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), including Alexandra Exter's famous series of Theatrical Decorations (1930).[http://www.artprivatecollections.ru/collection/lobanov_rostovsky/index.php?lang=en Pushkin museum official site (en)] His collection included 1100 works of art. In 2008 he sold it to the Russian Government.[http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-10192216/Art-repatriated-the-Lobanov-Rostovsky.html Art repatriated: the Lobanov-Rostovsky collection][http://www.lenizdat.ru/a0/ru/pm1/c-1063138-0.html Знаменитую коллекцию Лобановых-Ростовских приобрел Фонд «Константиновский»]
Lobanov is a fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Regent of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, a member of the Board of the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Foundation of Bulgaria, Deputy Chairman of the International Council of Russian Compatriots in Moscow, Chairman of the Russian-speaking Community in the UK, and a member of the jury of the international ballet competition "Tansolymp" in Berlin.
file:Leon Bakst 002.jpg|Léon Bakst, Narcisse
File:Costume of Cleopatra for Ida Rubinstain.jpg|Léon Bakst, Costume of Cleopatra for Ida Rubinstein
File:Petrouchka by A. Benois 02.jpg|Alexandre Benois, Petrouchka
File:Ivan Bilibin 173.jpg|Ivan Bilibin, Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia
Education
Lobanov-Rostovsky studied geology as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford; he was a member of Christ Church.
He also studied economic geology at Columbia University and accounting at New York University.
Philanthropy
Lobanov-Rostovsky has endowed the Lobanov-Rostovsky Professorship in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, his alma mater, along with the annual [https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/earth/lobanov-rostovsky-lecture Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology]. Scientists who have contributed extensively to the study of the Universe through the lenses of geology have been speakers, including the prominent Bernard Wood, speaker of the 2022 Lecture.{{Cite web |title=Department of Earth Sciences » Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture 2022 |url=https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/2022/05/lobanov-rostovsky-lecture-2022/ |access-date=2022-07-21 |language=en}}
Literature
- John E. Bowlt. N. D. Lobanov-Rostovsky. Katalog-rezone Khudozhniki Russkogo Teatra / Catalogue-raisonné: Painters of Russian Theatre, 1880–1930. Collection of Nikita and Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky (In Russian, 156 colour and 1026 b/w illustrations.) 1994. 528 pp. {{ISBN|5-210-00233-0}}, {{ISBN|978-5-210-00233-4}}
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