Portrait of Countess A. S. Protasova by Dmitry Levitsky

Portrait of Countess A. S. Protasova by Dmitry Levitsky

In the numerous family of the Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich Protasov, she was engaged in the upbringing of the great princesses – his daughters. In the Hermitage there is a portrait of A. S. Protasova with girls, written by a well-known Swedish artist, Angelica Kaufman Anna Stepanovna Protasova – daughter of Senator Stepan Fedrovich and Anisya Nikitishny, nee. Orlova. Protasov, great-niece of the Orlov brothers. Favorite maid of honor Catherine II. In 1785, he was granted the title of the camera-freylen and the “precious portrait of the empress”.

Favorite Catherine II, she, according to the post, accompanied the Empress in all her trips. Paul I on the day of the coronation granted her the order of St.. Catherine the Small Cross. Present at the last dinner in the Mikhailovsky Castle on March 11, 1801. Alexander I in 1801 elevated it to the dignity of the count. Until 1823, the chamber-freelled Empress Maria Feodorovna remained. She was not married. She died in Petersburg and was buried in the Dukhovsky Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. This is the second portrait of A. S. Protasova. For the first time Levitsky wrote it in 1790.

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