After graduating from the Academy of Arts Bogolyubov wrote a series of paintings on the history of the Crimean War. These paintings were purchased by the Emperor Alexander II, and the artist received an order to write the sea battles of the Northern and Russian-Swedish wars of 1789-1790. Above this order Bogolyubov worked in the late 60’s and 70’s of the XIX century. Studying historical data, he profoundly and comprehensively approached the image of such remarkable victorious battles of the Russian navy as the “Gangut battle of 1714”, “The sea battle near Ezel of 1719”, “The battle of Revel in 1720”, “The Battle of Krasnaya Gorka in 1790 ” and others. And if in the paintings of the 50’s there was mainly historically documentary truth,
One of the pictures of this cycle of sea battles was the “Revel battle on May 2, 1790” In the spring of 1790, Sweden sent its fleet to the Gulf of Finland to prevent the reconnaissance of the ships of the Reval and Kronstadt squadrons. On May 2, the Swedish fleet consisting of 22 battleships, 4 frigates and 4 small ships under the command of the Duke of Südermanland attacked a Russian squadron of 10 battleships, 5 frigates under the command of V. Ya. Chichagov standing on the Reval Raid. The Russian squadron stood so that the Swedish ships, approaching the distance of the artillery fire, were to consistently pass along the entire squadron. As a result of the well-coordinated actions of the Russian sailors, the 64-gun Swedish ship Prince Charles was seriously damaged and surrendered, the 74-gun ship Rixens Stender was thrown onto the rocks and burnt.
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