Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

Great Russian poet and playwright

"Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths"

“Portrait of Pushkin” – Kiprensky

Kiprensky. “Portrait of Pushkin.” 1827. Oil on canvas. On the striking similarity of the portrait with Pushkin said his contemporaries. For example, N.A. Mukhanov said: “From Pushkin Kiprensky wrote off a portrait extraordinarily similar.”