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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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’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.