The portrait depicts the fifteen-year-old grand duke according to all the rules of a ceremonial image: standing in a majestic pose against the background of columns and velvet draperies, dressed in a ceremonial uniform, armor, with a blue ribbon and the sign of the order of st. Andrew the first-called. On the left side of the chest is the star of the said order. On the neck is the sign of the holstein order of st. Anne. Received in 1925 from the state armory chamber (formerly the collection of the kolomenskoye palace). A copy of the portrait is in the state russian museum. The work is recorded in the inventory book of the state tretyakov gallery under number 26746. Date: 1743. Dimensions: 124,4 х 99,2 cm. Medium: oil. Collection: Tretyakov Gallery. Peter III of Russia by Grooth (1743, Tretyakov gallery)
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