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Originally Posted by Tjutchev
That is something that should not be in a happy and carefree life cruelly banished from the picture.
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And here is a well-known story with a portrait of Rokotov.
With the help of X-rays and special studies failed to prove that in fact the portrait depicts a woman with Tartar features and on top of it written by "unknown in the cocked hat." And in the first and the second case, the artist Rokotov wrote one and the same person - the first, who dies in childbirth, the wife of his friend, the poet Struyskogo Olympics. Apparently, Nicholas Eremeyevich ordered to alter a woman in a man, so as not to disturb the delicate feelings of a new young wife, and not to bring her jealousy.