Bust of Paul I – one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the Russian art of the XVIII century. The image of the emperor is multifaceted and contradictory. Shubin with unprecedented boldness destroys all the canons of the idealizing ceremonial portrait.
In his creation, sentimental dreaminess gets on with a harsh, almost cruel expression of face, and ugly, even caricature features do not deprive the image of majesty. He remembers Paul’s high, clean forehead and his wide, sorrowful and dreamy eyes. Everything is built on the finest modeling of forms. It is interesting that the portrait, so ruthlessly truthful, received official recognition.
He did not contain grotesque exaggerations and was distinguished by the magnificence of entourage, quite in the taste of the emperor. Paul I – the son of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich and Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseevna. Since 1796 – the Russian emperor. Killed as a result of the noble conspiracy in St. Michael’s Castle in St. Petersburg on March 11, 1801.
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Bust of General-Field Marshal of the Most Serene Prince GA Potemkin-Tavrichesky by Fedot Shubin 
Bust of MV Lomonosov by Fedor Ivanovich Shubin 
Bust of G. G. Orlova by Fedot Shubin 
Portrait of Platon Aleksandrovich Zubov by Fedot Shubin 
Buste de Paul I – Fedot Shubin 
Catherine II by Legislator – Fedot Shubin 
Bust of the Petersburg police general-general EM Chulkova by Fedot Shubin