Portrait of Queen Natalia Kirillovna

The artist is Choglokov

Naryshkina Natalya Kirillovna (September 1, 1651 – February 4, 1694). Daughter Boyarina Kirill Poluktovich Naryshkina (1623–1691), tonsured in 1682 at the request of the rebellious archers in the Cyril-Belozersky monastery under the name of Cyprian. Pupil (until 1671) boyar A. With. Matveeva. From 1671 – Queen, second wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, mother of Peter I and Tsareven Natalia and Theodora. The older sister of the boyar Lev Kirillovich Naryshkina (1664–1705). Peter I. Time and environment. SPb, 2015. With. 123.

The author’s size of the portrait was different (88 x 62) and was an oval inscribed in a rectangle. Late extensions changed the format. During the technological study, author’s alterations in the painting of the hands were found (initially there was a scarf in his hands). In the last third of the XVII century, the portrait of “in the Assumption” was spread, intended to be in secular mansions for the memory of descendants. The famous historian of the life of Russian kings and. E. Zabelin first published a message that “in 1694 (in February) painter Mich. Choglokov wrote „the image (person) in the Assumption of the Empress of the Blessed Queen and in. to. Natalia Kirillovna “”. Svetlana Moiseeva / Peter I. Time and environment. SPb, 2015. With. 58.

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