Society and Culture: Exhibition of Russian printed etchings of XVII - XVIII centuries in Kaliningrad

In the Kaliningrad Art Gallery is held an exhibition of Russian printed etchings of XVII - XVIII centuries "Cabinet of etchings by L. A. Voyekov". The exposition is delivered from the Tambov regional museum and a private collection of the famous Leonid Alekseevich Voeikov, Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum graduate and the son of the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, adjutant of Alexander I. At the time, he collected and was famous all over Russia by a unique collection of engravings of portraits of Russian emperors and empresses that more heirs in 1894 handed in Tambov Naryshkin reading room, and which, fortunately, perfectly preserved to this day.

Now the exposition exhibits a rich collection of portraits of Catherine II created by engravers virtually lifetime image of the Empress, and perhaps the only authentic portrait of the False Dmitry, and engraving of Alexander Menshikov, made Dutchman Peter Picart in 1701 on their own drawings.

The name of Catherine II is connected with another unique exhibit - the only copy of the manuscript of Leonid Voyekov "Engraved portrait of Catherine the Great. The manuscript of 1870-1886".