Show all images on one page	#005045 Title: Portrait of Pyotr Bagration Artist: Dokuchev Yevgeniy Size: 10x13x2 Size (inches): 4x5x0.75 Price : $495 SOLD!

Yuvgeniy Dokuchaev is the author of this splendid portrait of Pyotr Bagration, the hero of the war of 1812. This portrait was originally painted by the famous English portrait painter George Dow. George Dow was invited to Russia by Alexander I to paint the portraits of the Russian heroes of the Patriotic War of 1812. Soon after the triumphal victory of the Russian army over Napoleon's army, the Emperor Alexander I decided to create the military gallery of portraits of the outstanding Russian military leaders who gained fame in the War of 1812 against Napoleon. Now this gallery is located in the State Hermitage Museum in St.-Petersburg and includes more than four hundred portraits of prominent Russian military leaders. The portrait of Pyotr Bagration depicted on this box is a part of this gallery.
Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was born in 1765, in Kizlyar (Dagestan, Northern Caucasus). He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev (23 July 1812), rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino (7 September 1812), where he received a mortal wound. He died on 24 September, 1812, in the village of Simi, which belonged to his aunt.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. The lid is hinged from the left of the portrait, and the box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed with the artist's name.