Now really clear that this is not the Grand Duke
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In the photo clerk, after 1897, the shoulder straps can I consider the hard way.
There's not entirely clear from the gleams as though one, but silver epaulets? If the shoulder straps with two light spaces, and there are 2 stars - is a collegiate assessor, if 3 stars - the court counselor.
In any case, many people. Maybe it's an official military authority, if so, then the amount reduced from tens of thousands to just thousands. (Maybe the military-judicial authority?)
It is very likely that specialists will be able to clarify and understand the Office of the chase, there is an asterisk or another fixture. But to identify a person, I think, can only be accidental. Maybe it was Neika provincial official with ambitions, once commissioned a portrait of this size.