Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy

The Princes Troubetzkoy
Russian: Князья Трубецкие

The Troubetzkoy coat of arms
Ethnicity	Russian
Current region	Russia, France, United States, Germany, Switzerland
Earlier spellings	Trubchevsky
Place of origin	Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Members	Prince Dmitrii Troubetzkoy, d. 1625 Prince Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy, August 29, 1790 – November 22, 1860 Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy (Intra, Italy, 15 February 1866 — Pallanza, 12 February 1938) Prince Nikolai Troubetzkoy (Moscow, April 16, 1890 – Vienna, June 25, 1938)

Prince Nikolai Petrovitch Troubetzkoy (1828–1900) was a Privy Counsellor and Chamberlain of the Russian Imperial Court. A relative of the Decembrist Prince Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy, he served as the President of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society. For many years, he was a close aide of the composer Nikolai Rubinstein.

In 1866, Troubetzkoy and Rubinstein created and founded the Moscow Conservatory.

In 1876, Troubetzkoy retired from the Directorate due to his appointment as Vice-Governor of Kaluga. He was elected an honorary member of the Moscow branch and in that position, he was approved by the Chairman of the Russian Musical Society Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich Romanov.

He owned the famous Akhtyrka estate near Moscow. It was built in the Moscow Empire style and finished in 1825. Rubinstein and Conservatory professors were frequent visitors and often practiced there. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky visited in 1867. Wasily Kandinsky and brothers Viktor and Apollinary Vasnetsov often painted the estate.

Nikolai Troubetzkoy in the 1880s

Akhtyrka Estate shown in an 1830s lithograph