Tsar Alexander II (1818-1881) as Tsarevich, in black uniform with gold-embroidered red collar, gold epaulettes, wearing the blue moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew

A very similar signed version is illustrated in G. Biermann/Brinckmann, Die Miniaturensammlung Seiner Königlichen Hoheit des Grossherzogs Ernst Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Leipzig, 1917, pl. 130, no. 411. See Christie's, Geneva, 15 November 1988, lot 306, for another unsigned version.