The artist is the lamp
A sketch of the portrait 1793, located in the GE (GE-2755), copied in 1796 A. Belousov and f. Bognevsky (timing). No later than 1797, the artist created an allegorical image of the empress with figures of fortress and truth (Arkhangelsk Museum of Fine Arts).
Ekaterina II Great (Ekaterina Alekseevna Romanova (1729–1796)-nee Princess Sofia Augustus Frederick Angalt-cords. Born in the German city of Stetin. The eldest daughter of the Duke of Christian Augustus Angalt Tserbst (1690–1747) and Duchess of Johanna Elizabeth Golstein-Gottorp (1712–1760). In 1744, she arrived in Russia as the bride of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich, the future Emperor Peter III. In the same year she accepted Orthodoxy with the name of Ekaterina Alekseevna and was married to Peter Fedorovich in August 1745. From 1745 – Grand Duchess, a son was born in a marriage – Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, future emperor Paul I (1754–1801). She did not work out with her husband, and Peter III intended to send his wife to the monastery. In the summer of 1762 she headed the guards and overthrew Peter III, becoming an empress. In the early years of government, it adhered to politics "enlightened absolutism", But after the peasant war, led by Emelyan Pugachev (1773-1775) and the great French bourgeois revolution (1789), she was forced to tighten the regime. Woned the victorious wars with Turkey (1768-1774; 1787-1792) and Sweden (1788-1790). During its reign, Russia included Crimea (1783), North Black Sea region, Baltic states, eastern parts of Poland, Aleutian Islands, Russian settlements in Alaska were created, Eastern Georgia was taken under patronage. The prestige of Russia in Europe has grown many times. Olga Savenkova. Exhibition catalog in Malaga "The Romanov dynasty". 2017. With. 229.
Depicted with ribbons of the orders of St. Andrew the First -Called, St. George 1st degree and St. Vladimir 1st degree.
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