Benois family

• Mikhail Benois, colonel, tutor at the Corps of Pages.
• Leonty Benois, "the first doctor" in St.Petersburg.
• Nicholas Leontievich Benois, Russian architect. Designed several buildings for the Imperial Family at Peterhof.
• *Nicholas' son Albert Nikolayevich Benois, Russian water-colourist.
• *Nicholas' son Leon Nikolayevich "Leonty" Benois, Russian architect. He helped design the St. Petersburg Court Choir Chapel, whose sons Georgi Tamanian and Julius Tamanian were also prominent Armenian architects.
• *Nicholas' dtr. Ekaterina Nikolayevna "Katherine" Benois married sculptor Eugene Lanceray .
• **Their son Yevgeny Yevgenievich Lanceray, Russian graphic artist, painter, illustrator.
• **Their son Nikolay Lanceray, Russian architect, illustrator and biographer.
• **Their dtr. Zinaida Serebriakova née Lanceray, Russian portrait painter, was mother of architect Yevgeny Borisovich Serebriakov and artists Alexander Borisovich Serebriakov, Tatiana Borisovna Serebriakova, and Ekaterina Borisovna Serebriakova.
• *Nicholas' son Alexander Nikolayevich Benois, painter, theatrical designer, art
• **Alexander's dtr. Yelena Alexandrovna Benois-Clément was a talented painter whose first husband was composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky.
• **Alexander's son Nicola Alexandrovich Benois was a principal theatrical designer at La Scala in Milan.
• **Albert's dtr. Camille Evgenia Benois, artist, married Gen. Dimitri Leonidovitch Horvath who was General Manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway and a direct descendant of Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov.
• **Albert's son Nikolai Albertovich Benois married Maria Nikolayevna Kuznetsova, a famous Russian opera singer.
• **Albert's dtr. Maria Albertovna Benois married Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, also spelled Cherepnin. They were the parents of Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer and pianist whose son Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin was also a talented composer.
• **Leon's dtr. Nadezhda Leontievna Benois, illustrator and graphic designer, was the mother of British actor Sir Peter Ustinov.