The artist is unknown
Researchers confidently believe that it is this portrait that appears in the story told by the famous Russian scientist, mechanic and sculptor of Peter’s time Andrei Nartov: the king ordered him to draw him “in a picture with a smoking tube sitting at a table, who has fun and surrounded beside musical instruments, and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical and mathematical Other tools abandoned in the distance, as a sign that he did not like science, and that he only learned to play bass. “.
Peter I. Time and environment. SPb, 2015. With. 102.