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The Russian Museum » The Mikhailovsky Palace » Room 7

Room 7

The portrait genre found its vivid expression in sculptures of Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli (1675-1744), who was an Italian by birth. In 1716 he was called by Peter I to St. Petersburg to cast cannons and fulfil art work on decorating a new Russian capital. He came to Russia together with his son Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an architect-to-be. Unsurpassed in filigree technique of performance is his monumental sculptural group Empress Anna Ioannovna with a Negro Boy (1741).

The tapestry The Battle near Poltava is one of the significant and most famous works of the St. Petersburg tapestry manufactory founded on the initiative of Peter I in 1716.

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