In the sculptural depictions of the Empress Catherine II, a personalized allegorical image of the ideal state power that created public consciousness and, to a large extent, was formed by the empress herself, varies. In the evolution of this image, along with other phenomena, the emergence and development of classicism in the fine arts of Russia in the last third of the 18th century was reflected.
In general, the statuary plastics of the 1770s-70s were distinguished by a wide range of allegorical comparisons. Unsurpassed top, both in portrait and in ideological and semantic respect was the monumental work of FI Shubin “Catherine II – Legislator”, where the lofty ideals of the Russian Enlightenment were fully expressed.
The Empress is depicted in the image of Minerva, later appears the goddess Cybele, the mother of the gods and the ruler of all earthly things, the patroness of cities and states. MI Kozlovsky in a marble statue, completed in the year of Catherine’s death, presented her with the allegorical attributes of Themis, the Goddess of Justice
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