Repeat version of the 1779 portrait (state russian museum). Depicted wearing a small crown and an imperial ermine mantle, with a star and the badge of the order of st. Andrew the first-called on a chain and a ribbon of the order of st. George, 1st degree. The portrait was painted by rokotov for his friend, landowner nikolai yeremeevich struisky, and was kept in the struisky estate of ruzayevka (mordovia) until 1890. Under struisky, a palace appeared in ruzayevka, the design of which is attributed to f. B. Rastrelli, and one of the first provincial private printing houses in russia. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1786. Dimensions: height: 85 cm (33.4 in); width: 65 cm (25.5 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: State Historical Museum. Catherine II by Rokotov (1786, GIM)
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