Portrait of Prince Fyodor Romodanovsky
1836
- oil on canvas. 110 х 90
- State Museum «PAVLOVSK»
Copy of a non-extant portrait, part of the Preobrazhensky Series (mentioned in the inventory of 1735). The painting arrived at Pavlovsk after 1945 as part of the Gatchina Palace collection.
This portrait of Fyodor Romodanovsky was first mentioned in the inventory of the Gatchina Palace of 1840-1843. The entry documents a copy completed by artist Yakov Yanenko in 1836.
Fyodor Romodanovsky (circa 1640–1717) served at the courts of Alexis Mikhailovich and Theordore Alexeyevich. He was a close stolnik (cupbearer) of Ioann and Peter Alexeyevich; and in the mid 1680s, he became one of the closest associates of Peter the Great. He was Generalissimo of the Toy Army of Peter the Great and a permanent member of the Drunk Synod, where he had the title of “Prince-Caesar”. In 1697 he substituted for the tsar in Moscow while Peter participated in the Grand Embassy. Romodanovsky played a crucial part in strangling the Streltsy Uprising. From 1686 until his death, he was Head of Preobrazhensky Prikaz; and from 1703 he was also Head of Siberia Prikaz and Pharmaceutical Prikaz.