Help establish the identity of the figure Alexander Molinari (1772 - 1831)
 

Orders: The Prussian Order of the Black Order of St. orla.Russkie.
George the third century.
and St.
Vladimir 1-st century.

The figure is the year 1823.
Since 1816 locally 1822 Molinari worked in Warsaw, then in Berlin (1823-26)

Leonti Benningsen? ..
Have questions about George, but the Order of the Black Eagle was awarded not so much Russian.
Resided Benningsen since 1818 in Hanover.

I too long compared the picture of him with the personality of the figure Molinari. Something does not look like.
Russian Knights of the Order was indeed a bit:
Menshikov, Alexander Danilovich
Rumyantsev Transdanubia, Peter A.
Peter III
Suvorov, Aleksandr Vasilyevich
Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Bogdanovich
Bagration, Petr Ivanovich
Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich
Miloradovitch, Mikhail A.
Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich
Ermolov, Aleksei Petrovich
suppose that the portrait of a Pole .

List, of course, a little wider to the Russian given you add:
Alexander III
Alexander Württemberg
Arakcheyev, Alexei A.
Bennigsen, Leonti L.
Wittgenstein, Peter Hristianovich
Golitsyn, Dmitry
Konstantin
Menshikov, Alexander Danilovich
Milutin, Dmitri
Nicholas II
Nikolai Nikolayevich the Elder
Osterman Tolstoy, Alexander Ivanovich
Paskevich, Ivan
Peter August Friedrich of Holstein-Beksky
Repnin, Nikolai
Repnin-Volkonsky, Nicholas G.
Ubri, Pavel Petrovich
Uvarov, Fedor Petrovich
Chernyshev, Zakhar
Of these, more or less suitable only Bennigsen. If a Pole, who could it be? Order of the Black Eagle - a reward for foreigners higher ranks. From Polish history so soon, no one recall - and high rosskiyskie awards, and the Prussian ... :confused:

And in my opinion, is similar.

And what if someone from Prussia in the Russian service?

St.Vladimir Order of the neck, probably all the same the second degree.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
"Second degree. Cross and the Star, like set for the first degree. Cross worn around the neck on the tape, in one and a quarter inch, and the star on the left side of his chest"

Look closely at the shape (size) of the nose, left ear, lip.
And LA Benningsen little squint his left eye.
Matches can not see.