- Konstantin Flavitsky
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky ( _ru. Константин Дмитриевич Флавицкий) (
September 13 (25),1830 -September 3 (15), 1866) was aRussia n painter.His most famous painting is "Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood" based on the legend of the death of
Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova , the daughter ofAleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky andElizabeth of Russia in her prison cellar during the flood inSaint Petersburg ."In his art Konstantin Flavitsky adhered to classical traditions, the principles bequeathed by K.P.Bryullov. His creative heritage in not extensive and he is known primarily as the author of the painting Princess Tarakanova. The work is based on a legend from Russian history according to which Princess Tarakanova, who said she was the daughter of Empress Alexei Razumovsky and laid claim to the Russian throne in Catherine the Great's reign, died in the Peter and Paul Fortress during the flood of 1777. Flavitsky depicts with great tragic power the suffering of this young woman facing certain death in a gloomy dungeon flooded with water, depicting her helplessness and despair most expressively." (Masterpieces of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Red Square Publishers, ISBN 978-5-9000743-36-3)
On 25 September 1980, the
Soviet Union issued a 6kopek [http://home.nestor.minsk.by/fsunews/ussr/1980/su4997-8.html postage stamp] commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth (together with that ofNikolai Nevrev ).
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