The artist is unknown
Potemkin-Tauride Grigory Aleksandrovich (1739–1791)-Count (1775), Serene Prince (1776), Field Marshal (1784), Favorite and closest associate of Catherine II.
Since 1769 he successfully participated in the battles of the Russo-Turkish war. In 1774, close to the empress. The creator of the Black Sea Navy founded a number of cities, including Yekaterinoslav (1776), Kherson (1778), Sevastopol (1783), Nikolaev (1789). One of the authors of the Greek project, with its active participation in 1783, was carried out to Russia of the Crimean Peninsula, for which he received the honorary name “Tauride”. In 1787 he organized a trip to Crimea Catherine II. Commander-in-Chief during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1991, took the fortress of Ochakov (1788). Since 1790 the great hetman of Cossack Yekaterinoslav and Black Sea troops. Cavalier of the orders of St. Anna (1770), St. George 3rd degree (1770), St. Alexander Nevsky (1774), St. Andrew the First -Called (1774), St. George 2nd degree (1775), Seraphim (1776), St. Vladimir 1st degree (1782), St. George 1st degree (1788), black eagle, white eagle, St. Stanislav, Elephant (Danish Order).
The portrait, apparently, was made from the engraving by James Waker 1789, the location of the picturesque original is unknown. The assumption that the author of the original was Johann Baptistampi Senior, has no reason.
Presented in a uniform with sewing corresponding to the rank of Field Marshal, with ribbons and stars of the orders of St. Andrew the First -Called and St. Vladimir and with the star of the Order of St. George.
Unlike the image on Waker engraving, there is no part of the signs, for example, a portrait of Empress Catherine II for wearing on her chest, a sign of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, there is also no sign on the cervical tape of the Order of St. George 2nd degree (1st degree was obtained on July 16, 1788).
Catherine the Great in the country and the world. SPb, 2017. With. 131.
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