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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)

                                     

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   Catherine in Her Later Years
 
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  Nikolai Utkin (1780-1863) after Vladimir Borovikovskii (1757-1825)
Portrait of Catherine the Great
N.p., ca. 1800
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

This engraving of Catherine the Great by Nikolai Utkin is based on a portrait by Vladimir Borovikovskii, which was originally painted in 1794 and subsequently reworked in the first decade of the 19th century, after her death.