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Gift of Silas E. Burroughs, 1860.1.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyr…
Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia
Gift of Silas E. Burroughs, 1860.1.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia

MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 41 1/2 × 31in. (105.4 × 78.7cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Silas E. Burroughs
DescriptionPortrait of Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, in middle age. He has a mustache and is wearing tan trousers and a blue uniform coat with many military decorations. His left hand rests on the hilt of a sword; his right arm is extended slightly from his body. The painting is in a heavily gilded frame.
Object number1860.1.0
NotesSubject note, from Albert Carlos Bates card: Portrait presented by the subject to Silas E. Burrows of Groton, Connecticut, in 1848 and forwarded to the Connecticut Historical Society by Thomas H. Seymour. Mr. Burrows sailed into the harbor of St. Petersburg on August 31, 1848. On September 5th, John G. Kutusoff, Russian Councilor of State, came on board the Patapsco to pay him his respects "as the owner of the first American vessel which had ever been up to Petersburg."
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Gift of Paul Vreeland, 2019.5.1, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
    Nicholas D. Vreeland
    1918
    Nicholas 1st. Emperor of Russia.
    Elijah Chapman Kellogg
    1852-1853
    Gift of the Smith-Worthington Saddlery Co., 2021.22.127, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyri…
    Nicholas Mitesser
    1945
    Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.58.4, Connecticut Historical S…
    St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church
    William Lawrence Jillson
    Erastus Salisbury Field
    about 1835
    The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2010.184.1  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    D. W. Kellogg & Co.
    1830-1840
    Gift of Stanhope F. Cunningham, 2013.182.8  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Phyllis Fenn Cunningham
    1950-1979