The artist is Borovikovsky
Filippova Olga Kuzminichna (nee Mikhailova; 1772-1829)-wife p. With. Filippov, close friend and executor Borovikovsky. P. With. Filippov, Ukrainian by nationality, in his youth served as a Vakhmistr in the Moldavian Hussar Regiment, and in 1787 he was determined by a student at the teacher’s seminary, which he graduated in 1789, receiving a teacher’s diploma. In 1790, he married about. To. Mikhailova, and in 1800 he was enrolled in the commission on the construction of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg by the assistant architect; performed secretary functions at a. N. Voronikhin. He was not a professional architect, in the year of writing a portrait he served as a teacher in St. Petersburg.
The Russian Museum. From the icon to the present. 2005. With. 112.
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