PORTRAIT BUST OF A LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN IMPERIAL MILITARY...

saint order andrew alexander-nevsky orders george imperial anne military russian paul tsar tsarist vladimir catherine officers great established ranking stanislaus highest received officer field marshall mikhail empress awarded worn sitter 1729-1796 soviet knight class presented century sash indicates reigns regarded leadership include conferred individuals civilian recipient army gulenischev-kutuzov badge leaders federation peter 1698 distinguished automatically exclusively erratic probably marble wearing definitively panoply 1801 white founded 1725 high 1796 identity suggested peruke fact senior turn governor lithuania named prized 1754-1801 general eagle late 18th/early 19th mantle royal ascertained costume extremely 18th/19th centuries 1745-1813 kutuzov remains russia's highly wounded 1774 1788 served diplomat prussia later achieved lasting fame repelling napoleon's invasion memory 1942 navy extreme bravery bust badly russia kutuzov's officials face portrait note plausibly twice petersburg 1812 revered empire enemy estimate 1,500-2,500