Borovikovsky wrote Catherine II on a walk in the park of Tsarskoe Selo. I liked the portrait, and the artist wrote his version. So there were two almost identical portraits

Borovikovsky perfectly mastered the technique of miniature painting: especially it is felt in the very fine modeling of the face depicted. The figure is easily and naturally entered in a

At the turn of the XVIII – beginning of the XIX century Borovikovsky turned to a new type of group portrait for him. This allowed the artist to introduce new

But another masterpiece Borovikovsky – a portrait of Skobeeva. The daughter of the Kronstadt sailor, she was still a girl in the house of DP Troshchinsky, who brought her up

Elena Naryshkina, Princess, daughter of the Ober-Chamberlain Alexander Lvovich Naryshkin, mother – Maria Alekseevna Senyavina, the daughter of the famous admiral. Elena Alexandrovna’s parents were close people at court and