The artist is Vogel
Komarovsky Evgraf Fedotovich (1769-1843)-Count, Adjutant General, Infantry General. The son of a small court official. Warrant Officer of the Life Guards of the Izmailovsky Regiment (1792). Adjutant of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, with whom he participated in the Italian and Swiss campaigns a. AT. Suvorov. Major General (1799), Adjutant General (1801), Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1803). Assistant to the St. Petersburg Military Governor (1801), internal guard inspector (1811), temporary military governor of St. Petersburg (1824). In 1828 he was made to the generals from infantry and appointed senator.
It is depicted in the General General Uniform, on the epaulettes of the monogram of Emperor Alexander I. Order: St. Vladimir of the 2nd degree (October 5, 1813, the cross on the neck and the star; the signs of the order are attributed later), St. Anna of the 1st degree (March 16, 1806, tape), the Commander Cross of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Maltese Cross, October 29, 1799), the Sardinsky cross of Lazarus and Mauritius of the 3rd degree (received until 1802). Portrait Gallery of the Russian Museum. Persons of Russia. SPb. 2012. With. 75.
Visual and technological research of the signature of the artist, which has always been signed as "Vogel", led to the correct reading of the first title letter. Dates from the time of the artist’s arrival in St. Petersburg (December 1808) and the beginning of 1812, when, by decree of the emperor of the lands of the collars, the uniform became rectangular and fastened with hooks (Glinka in.M. Russian military costume of the XVIII – early twentieth century. L., 1988. With.41.)
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