Portrait of Catherine II

The artist is Ust -Ruditskaya Ekaterina II Great (Sofia Augusta Frederick Anhalt-Tserbstskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna, April 21 / May 2, 1729, Stettin −November 6/17, 1796, St. Petersburg) − The daughter of Prince Christian Augusta Cerbact Dornburg and Johanna Elizabeth, Princess Golstein-Gottorp. From 1742 the wife of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich. Came to power in 1762 as…

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Warm day

The artist is Levitin The picture personifies the beginning of the tennization of Soviet art, which unfolded after the official exposure of the cult of the personality of Stalin in 1957. The image of a girl who is resting after simple homework does not correlate with any of the ideological formulas. Voluntarily or involuntarily Levitin…

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