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Description of the painting by Ivan Nikitin “Portrait of a floor hetman”

In the State Museum of St. Petersburg there is one very mysterious and magnificently executed painting. Its author is Russian portrait painter Ivan Nikitin. The oval inscribed in the rectangle represents to our gaze

Description of the painting by Ivan Nikitin “Portrait of Chancellor Golovkin”

Art critics have long argued about this picture, some still doubt it, but still, most say that this particular work of art brought the artist maximum fame. Indeed, the portrait of Golovkin is not