With regard to "see Elena Pavlovna, where there is none" - came across the story of portretotom by Alessandro Molinari from the museum collection to them. Pushkin. Long believed that it - VK Elena Palovna. Hereinafter:
"German artist Alexander Molinari (1772-1831) worked in St. Petersburg from 1806 to 1816. The catalog was published signed (Molinari), but not dated watercolor portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (...). On the origin of the portrait is known only that He joined the museum in late 1920 ¬ ies of the Leningrad State Museum Fund, which fell a work of art from private collections and grand. Externally, the lady at the Moscow portrait is quite different from a reliable picture of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of paintings of Charles Brullov, Christine Robertson, Joseph Kura and prints by Ivan Ceska, Roman Kuryatnikova. Comparison of the date of the possible photo opportunities Elena Pavlovna A. Molinari and the residence time of the artist in Russia leads to the same result: Molinari left Russia in 1816, when the future Russian grand duchess was 10 and lived it in a small German principality.
Depicted in watercolors lady has an undoubted resemblance to another "Russian German girl" - Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Grand Duke Nicholas, who ruled under the name of Nicholas I. Alexandra Feodorovna, born Princess Frederica Louise Charlotte Wilhelmina, ... "
Now this rbota listed as "A. Molinari. Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna. 1820."
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