Is it worth restoring?

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And Kramskoy only after 3 years decided to put work. calling it the "Unknown".

It is not.
The work is dated 1883 m year.
(Bottom right caption: , St. Petersburg. Kramskoy 83)
And for the first time the work was exhibited at the 11th TPHV 1883-1884 under number 7 in St. Petersburg and № 19 in Moscow.
And so on a personal exhibition of the artist and then in 1887

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Cyril Syzranskiy
Yes, that was something, in the evening where there her bust in the window flashed , if I remember correctly.

Almost:
And every evening, at the appointed hour
(Or am I only dreaming it?)
Girlish figure, swathed in silk,
In the misty moving window.

And slowly passing between the drunken,
Always, without satellites, one
Breathing perfumes and mists,
She sits by the window.

(c)

[redbor]

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Not so.
The work is dated 1883 m year.
(Right below the signature: SPB. Kramskoy 1983)

Why not? It seems logical to obtain. The king ordered 1880/81g, Kramskoy got to work (out, even Anichkov Palace painted)
 In March 1881 killing of a portrait of the customer,
 supernumerary portrait in disgrace expelled from the country ... Portrait of the remains.
 But do not disappear as good! "
After waiting a couple of years, Kramskoy it brings to mind, sign "SPB. Kramskoy 83 " and insert the name of Unknown ...
 Here are found with the signature
Incidentally, the lady dressed in the latest fashion in 1880, according to experts in these things.
 - Hat "Francis", with light pens
 "Swedish" gloves from the finest Laika,
coat "Skobelev", with sable fur and blue satin ribbons,
 Clutch ...

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supernumerary portrait in disgrace expelled from the country ...

If you are about Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukov, then it naturally, nobody expelled.
He looked to me as sent to HSH Princess Yuryevskaya-lawful wedded (!) The late emperor's wife, the mother of his three children (a fourth died in infancy).

[redbor]

Yes, the sent-not the word. But there was a is forced to leave Russia because of the rejection and pressure from the relatives of the late Alexander and in the first place - a new Alexander 3, could not stand long beloved of his father.
But the marriage was legitimate, but it was left-handed marriage, born out of wedlock legalized. but not recognized as heirs and received his father's name is not a Yuryevskoe ...
 Whatever it was, coming back to this version - a portrait of Catherine, commissioned by the king before the wedding, was left unclaimed.
 First left, Alexander was killed.
 Well, that was Kramskoy this portrait to attach the name incognito .. This is not my version, I just explained it.
How do you this portrait with the caption at the top?

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[redbor]

It could be many ladies?