Portrait of Count Fedor Fedorovich Buxhoeveden (1750-1811)

Details

After Vladimir Borovikovsky
Portrait of Count Fedor Fedorovich Buxhoeveden (1750-1811)
oil on canvas
33 5/8 x 26 5/8 in. (85.4 x 67.6 cm.)

Exhibited

Paris, Salle Pleyel, Exposition Pouchkine et son époque, 1937.

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Lot Essay

Fedor Fedorovich Buxhoeveden (1750-1811) was a prominent Russian Imperial Army general. He had a distinguished military career, rising from a cadet (1764) to commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army (1808). Buxhoeveden's most heralded military achievement was the siege of Sveaborg Castle in 1808, which brought an end to the Finnish war against Sweden (1808-1809) and resulted in the annexation of Finland to Russia.

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