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Viktor Nikitich Panin (9 April (28 March

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) 1801 Moscow – 13 April (1 April

) 1862

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Russian Minister of

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(1841–1862). He was the younger son of Count

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by Countess Sofia Vladimirovna

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a. His granddaughter,

Sofia Panina Countess Sofia Vladimirovna Panina (Russian: Софья Владимировна Панина; 23 August 1871 – 16 June 1956) was Vice Minister of State Welfare and Vice Minister of Education in the Provisional Government following the Russian F ...

was a philanthropist who became active in the

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following the

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. She was subjected to a

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following the

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seizure of power in the

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