A Moscow Family of the Old Ways

“Prince Pyotr Alexandrovich Obolensky, founder of the countless descendants of the Obolensky family, was once a great original (meaning that even now he would mostly have been one, and in the previous era, in the time of especially notable personalities and physiognomies, his originality wouldn’t surprise or prick the eyes). He spent his last twenty to thirty years in Moscow as a near-indefatigable homebody…”