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Five masterpieces of the Hermitage.

My personal list.

Shadows beside the canvas ...

St. Petersburg, 2017

There are women who break into a man's fate, like disaster, destroying, burning and drowning all around…

Madonna with a flower by Leonardo da Vinci

In 1908 the authorship of great Leonardo was first established, and in 1914, the painting was sold to the Hermitage

The first woman in the life of each man is his mother.

Madonna Litta by Leonardo da Vinci

The world around them is disappearing, they are in their own Universe …

The painting was presented to the Hermitage by the Italian Count Litta in 1865

The Genius of Alexander I by Elisabeth Vigee - Lebrun

Paintings like people live their own lives and have their own unique destiny.

The prototype of this portrait is Henry Lubomirskii - the symbol of the Polish rebels

The Military Gallery of the Winter Palace contains 332 portraits of the Generals, the heroes of the War 1812

The portraits performed by the English artist George Dawe and the Russian artists V. Polyakov and V. Golikov

Two generals

General Nikolay N. Raevsky by George Dawe

General Sergey G. Volkonsky by George Dawe

Maria Volkonskaya - one of the most astonishing women

General Alexander A. Tuchkov,

by George Dawe

This brave and honest military man dedicated all his short life to the Tsar and Motherland

Margarita Tuchkova

Margarita Tuchkova is the apotheosis of worldly female love

Margarita Tuchkova’s devoted service to her husband’s memory is a majestic hymn of love and loyalty

Spaso-Borodinsky convent

The monument devoted to the soldiers killed during the War 1812. It was built thanked to the widow of General Tuchkov - Margarita Tuchkova

Margarita Tuchkova is the model of woman's devotion, a majestic hymn of love and loyalty

Shadows beside the canvas …

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