Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, well-bred, who knew foreign languages well, in 1742, 22 years old, was taken to the court of Elizaveta Petrovna and seven years later became the favorite of


Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, well-bred, who knew foreign languages well, in 1742, 22 years old, was taken to the court of Elizaveta Petrovna and seven years later became the favorite of

Rimsky-Korsakov, the son of State Chancellor Mikhail Andreevich – General of Infantry. Participated in the second Turkish war. In 1793 he was under the Count d’Artois, then he was a

It captures a pretty girl with delicate, almost childish features. Pastel gamut of pink and silver-white tones gives the image chaste purity. An unforgettable expression on the girl’s face is

Rokotov wrote an elderly man with all the high-ranking regalia of a state councilor. But behind external parade he does not hide the anxious dissatisfaction of the personality of a

Nikita Akinfievich, distinguished by his love of science and patronized scientists and artists. He published the Journal of Traveling in Other Lands, in which there are many correct comments pointing

Buturlina Anna Artemyevna, the second daughter of Count Artemy Ivanovich Vorontsov and Countess Praskovya Fedorovna, nee Kvashnina-Samarina. In 1793 she married her second cousin, Count Dmitry Petrovich Buturlin. Contemporaries noted

Among the works of F. Rokotov, the portrait of Vasily Ivanovich Maikov stands out in particular, in the guise of which insight, the ironic mind of a talented poet, can

This is the second portrait from the pair portrait of the Struys couple – the wife of Nikolai Struysky. The couple was unhappy in marriage, perhaps because Struysky was a

Peter III Fedorovich – Emperor of All-Russia, son of the duke Holstein-Gottorp Karl-Friedrich, son of the sister of Charles XII of Sweden, and Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great;

Rokotov’s creativity opens the period of the brilliant flourishing of Russian portrait painting of the second half of the 18th century. Unfortunately, almost nothing is known about the artist’s life.

The portrait of Count G. G. Orlova in armor was long attributed to L. Toke, a French artist at the court of Elizaveta Petrovna. A. V. Lebedev belongs to the

Ivan Ivanovich Baryatinsky – the son of the famous diplomat I. S. Baryatinsky. At one time, a well-known angloman and agronomist, a large landowner. He was Russian ambassador at the

In Rokotov’s work, a special place is occupied by an entire gallery of portraits of the Vorontsov family close to him in three generations. Praskovya Artemyevna Vorontsova is a countess,

This portrait entered the Russian Museum as an image of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich. On the back of the canvas there is a stamped old note, which testifies that in

“Portrait of A. A. Kurakina” and “Portrait of I. B. Kurakin” – were received in the collection from the famous collection of princes Kurakin. “Portrait of I. B. Kurakin” acted

Dmitry Nikolaevich Senyavin – an outstanding Russian admiral, a member of the Russian-Turkish war and the Mediterranean march, where he was commander-in-chief of sea and land forces. At the end

Ekaterina Nikolaevna Orlova, the daughter of N. Ya. Zinoviev and E. N. Senyavina, the wife of G. G. Orlova and the maid of honor of Catherine II. When the long-term

Princess Anna Alexandrovna, the daughter of Alexander Fedorovich Bredikin, colonel, governor of Novgorod under Empress Anna Ioannovna, was the second wife of Prince Nikolai Alekseevich Dolgorukov.

The merit of Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov, a magnificent artist of the end of the 18th century, was the creation of an intimate, chamber-like type of portrait revealing the inner world

Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov is one of the greatest Russian portrait painters of the second half of the 18th century. The ceremonial portrait of Empress Catherine Alekseevna was written by him

Paired portraits of V. TT, stored in the Russian Museum. Surovtseva and her husband are a wonderful example of F. S. Rokotov’s mature, sophisticated pictorial skill. The artist subordinates to