Prince Nikita Dmitrievich Lobanov-Rostovsky (russian: Никита Лобанов, Никита Дмитриевич Лобанов-Ростовский) (born 6 January 1935), known as Nikita Lobanov, is a Russian Rurikid, geologist, banker, and notable art collector of Russian stage design of the period of 1880–1930 (in particular designs for '' Ballets Russes''). Lobanov was born on 6 January 1935 in

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, to Russian émigré parents, Dmitry Ivanovich

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and Irina Vasilievna (née Vyrubova, and from an old Russian noble family). He is a collector of costume and stage designs by Russian artists (1890–1930s), including

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's Ballets Russes. He has organised numerous exhibitions, including one at the

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(1967). He has written several works (''Russian Painters and the Stage'' (1969), ''Trade Financing'' (1980) and ''Banking'' (1982), etc.). In 1987 he donated 80 works of art to the Museum of Personal Collections of Pushkin Museum (Moscow), including

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's famous series of Theatrical Decorations (1930). His collection included 1100 works of art. In 2008 he sold it to Russian Government.Russian theater art collection to be shown in St. Petersburg
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, a Regent of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, and 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

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, ''Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia''

Education

Lobanov-Rostovsky studied

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as an undergraduate at the

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; he was a member of Christ Church. He also studied economic geology at

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and accounting at

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Philanthropy

Lobanov-Rostovsky has endowed the Lobanov-Rostovsky Professorship in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, his alma mater, along with the annua
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.

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. ,

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