Konstantin Flavitsky

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Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood, 1864
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Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood, 1864

Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky (Russian: Константин Дмитриевич Флавицкий) (September 13(25), 1830 - September 3(15), 1866) was a Russian painter.

His most famous painting is Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood based on the legend of the death of Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova, the daughter of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky and Elizabeth of Russia in her prison cellar during the flood in Saint Petersburg.

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