olulisemad olid vennad Orlovid, Pjotr Zubov ja Grigori Potjomkin. Neist viimane on läinud ajalukku "Potjomkini külade" asutajana. Oma valitsemise ajal hoolitses Katariina uute maade vallutamise (Poola kolm jagamist) kui ka seni autonoomsetena püsinud provintside alistamise eest. Ta laskis äraostetud Euroopa literaatidel ülistada end "valgustatud" monarhina, kuigi tema tegelik valitsemisviis selleks põhjust ei andnud. Vladimir Borovikovsky (17571825) Katariina II pargis, 1794. Fakte *Vormsi uue kalmistu rajamise võis tingida ka Katariina II keeld matta kirikute lähedale. * Juutide kõne, mida paljud peavad "juudi huumoriks", hakkas tekkima 18. sajandil, Vene impeeriumi provintsis, mida keisrinna Katariina Teine nimetas Novorossija, see tähendab Uus Venemaa. * Hiljem andis Katariina II nõusoleku Võru eramõisa ostmiseks linna rajamiseks. 4.okt.1788.a. kinnitas
by the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Benjamin Block, Franz Werner von Tamm, Anton Graff and others. Angelica Kauffmann who in 1760s-1770s worked in London, is the representative of German late Rococo. Italian art is illustrated mostly by 17th-century masters like Bernardo Strozzi and Francesco Trevisani. An important part of the collection belongs to the Russian portrait painting from the 18th-19th centuries, represented by such masters like Dmitri Levitsky, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Vasily Tropinin, and Giovanni Battista Lampi who worked in Russia in the 18th century. The representatives of Russian academic realist painting from the second half of the 19th century are Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Ilya Repin. The works by Abram Arkhipov, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Konstantin Korovin are examples of Russian Modernism from the first decades of the 20th century. The museum has also a small collection of Finnish painting from the beginning of the 20th century
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