Ivan Yuryevich Trubetskoy (1667–1750) Eldest son of Boyar Yury Trubetskoy and Princess Irina Golitsyna (?–1679), sister of a Tsarevna Sofia’s favorite. He was one of the first persons to join the Preobrazhensky Regiment. In 1673 he became Captain, and in a year he was promoted Lieutenant Colonel. He gained the trust of Peter the Great. Under the instruction of the tsar he was put in charge of overseeing Tsarevna Sofia while she was placed in the Novodevichy Convent. In 1698, while holding the rank of Major General, he was also appointed governor of Novgorod. During the Northern War he commanded a division and was taken captive and remained in captivity for eighteen years. When he returned to Russia in 1718 he was made governor of Kiev. In 1721 he was promoted General in Chief. Trubetskoy was a member of the Military College. During the reign of Peter II in 1728 he was appointed Field Marshal General. In 1730 he became a senator and was awarded the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. His first wife was Princess Anastasia Stepanovna Tateva (?–1690), a rich heiress and the last surviving member of her family. In 1691 he entered into a second marriage with Irina Naryshkina (1669–1749), a boyar’s daughter who would become a lady-in-waiting.

The portrait was acquired as Ivan Nikitin’s work. As the researchers of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm assume, the portrait may be attributed to the German artist David von Krafft (1655–1724) or one of his pupils, e. g. Lukas von Breda (1676–1752).