The artist is Caravak
Ekaterina I (March Samuilovna Skavronskaya, Ekaterina Alekseevna Mikhailova; April 5/15, 1684 − May 6/17, 1727, St. Petersburg) − The second wife of Peter the Great, the Russian Empress since 1721 as the wife of the reigning emperor, from 1725 as the ruling sovereign; Mother Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. In her honor, Peter I was established by the Order of St. Catherine (1713) and the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals (1723) was named. The name of Catherine I also bears the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo (built under her daughter Elizabeth). Reigned from January 28 /8 February − 1725 to 6/17 May – 1727.
The 400th anniversary of the Romanov house. SPb, 2013. With. 110.
Ekaterina Alekseevna (Born Marta Skavronskaya (April 15, 1684 – May 6, 1727). The second wife of Peter I (since February 19, 1712). Koronovanova Peter I as an empress and co -ruler May 7, 1724. From January 28, 1725 – Empress.
Peter I. Time and environment. SPb, 2015. With. 122.
Peter I met Katerina in 1703 (in girlhood Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya, the widow of Dragoon Johann Kruze), captured as military booty during the assault on the Swedish fortress Marienburg. The official wedding of Peter and Ekaterina Alekseevna took place on February 19, 1712, after the Prut campaign. They had children: Catherine (December 28, 1706 – July 27, 1708), Anna (February 7, 1708 – May 15, 1728), Elizabeth (December 18, 1709 – December 25, 1761), Natalia (March 3, 1713 – May 27, 1715), Margarita (3 September 1714 – July 27, 1715), Peter (October 29, 1715 – April 25, 1719), Paul (January 2, 1717 – January 3, 1717), Natalia (August 20, 1718 – March 4, 1725).
The size of the canvas (51 x 42) has been changed by late extensions around the perimeter, but the painting of the face is the author. Initially, it was depicted in a white dress with a rectangular neckline and an orderly ribbon over the shoulder – like on the portrait.-M. Nadier. Perhaps it is one of the earliest sketches of Ekaterina Alekseevna, performed by Caravak after the return of Peter and Catherine from Europe, and the steam room to the portrait of Peter I, almost coinciding with him in size. Peter I. Time and environment. SPb, 2015. With. 66.
