M. A. Zichy. "the imperial reception in the winter palace on april 5, 1866 after the first attempt on the life of emperor alexander ii. ", painted in 1866 (paper, watercolor, whitewash). On april 4, 1866, d. V. Karakozov, who had been expelled from moscow university for non-payment, made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of emperor alexander ii after the latter was walking in the summer garden. Tragedy was avoided thanks to the heroic act of the kostroma peasant o. I. Komissarov, who pushed away the terrorist's hand, for which he was subsequently ennobled with the surname komissarov-kostromskoy. The watercolor by court artist mikhail alexandrovich zichy depicts (from left to right): count b. A. Perovsky, grand duke alexei alexandrovich, grand duke vladimir alexandrovich, prince v. I. Baryatinsky, tsarevich alexander alexandrovich, empress maria alexandrovna and emperor alexander ii. On the right is a group of sixteen prominent statesmen, including: minister of the imperial court and appanages count v. F. Adlerberg, minister of internal affairs p. A. Valuev, head of the third section of her imperial majesty's chancellery and chief of gendarmes prince v. A. Dolgorukov, st. Petersburg military governor-general prince a. A. Suvorov-italian, st. Petersburg provincial marshal of the nobility count v. P. Orlov-davydov and others. Date: 1866.
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