#petre bagrationi

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Форма Головы Барклаи(??)

(aka. The shape of Barclay's head(??))

"Egg!" Haha!

"hehehehehe hehehehe!"

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...and the sorrowful aftermath 🥲↓

"My head is not an egg..." 😭😭😭 . . (ko-fi)

#drawing #original art #manga #pen and ink #traditional art #brush pen #drawing pen #fan art #comic strip #napoleonic #napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #it's crack o'clock folks #sort of #pyotr bagration #pyotr ivanovich bagration #petre bagrationi #michael andreas barclay de tolly #tsar alexander i #alexander I #(come to think of it this is the first time I draw sasha 👀👀) #петр иванович багратион #Михаил Богданович Барклай де Толли #Александр I Павлович

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Ahhh, portraits of Bagration! They are something of a mess, with every engraver and their dog claiming to repeat after Tonci, but with every repetition Bagration's features became more and more exaggerated. Not to mention, we don't actually have Tonci's original. There is a very bad copy by an unknown portraitist and many engravings 'based on'.

(Let's put aside the 'mistaken identity' portraits, because at least two Bagrationi are regularly called by Petr Ivanovich's name, including a younger brother, who, at that, wore a moustache.)

In fact, there is a case to be made that there is a bit of truth in Dawe's portrait. The way Dawe's whole enterprise worked, he and his team produced copies after earlier originals, just in the right size and in uniform style. Fairly faithful copies with a bit of poetic licence in details, often kept at exactly the same angle if only possible. The portraits were based on one of the following things: the generals who were still around, portraits send in by families or by those who couldn't make it to Petersburg. Those portraits were gathered and handled by the General Staff. It was a Big Deal. And if no likeness could be tracked, then no dice - they left an empty frame.

So, where am I going with this? George Dawe and his team had to be copying something. And it certainly wasn't Tonci. So what could it have been? The most probable theory - or at least one that kinda works - is that it was a portrait by R. M. Volkov. It is fairly indisputed that Bagration ordered a pair of portraits from Volkov between 1810 and his death, of him and his absent wife. But we don't have this Bagration... or do we? There are at least two paintings languishing in Russian museums, a 1830s copy of an unknown portrait, another older and a mystery. The older one, the Rybinsk Bagration, is thought to be what Dawe might have worked from.

How do we know that they're not copied from Dawe? That's easy. Dawe's workshop produced copies of the gallery paintings as it breathed (because money). And there are a few Dawe-copy Bagrations around. But they all have the wrong, 1817 uniform on, like the Dawe original does and the same arrangement of orders, which doesn't look like that with Dawe - not on the portrait, not on the workshop engraving. Those two, whatever they were copied from, have the version of uniform just right for the time.

Now, we don't actually know that the Rybinsk portrait is the missing Volkov or its copy. But it could very well be. It roughly fits Volkov's style. And we know that of all possible paintings of Kutuzov, Dawe chose Volkov's to extrapolate from when painting his Kutuzov in full length. There was a reason for that. It was widely known that before Dawe arrived, Alexander was Volkov's great fan and indeed pronounced his own portrait to be a magnificent one.

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"Ooooooh Noooooooo it's that *season* again, I have to host receptions and balls again, I have to borrow money agaaaiiin aidmdlejfkfufrjgnglgkgkghkkjnj" 😩😩😭💀

#friedland ended but at what cost 💀 #drawing #original art #manga #doodle #doodles #pen and ink #brush pen #traditional art #fan art #pyotr ivanovich bagration #pyotr bagration #petre bagrationi #петр иванович багратион #napoleonic #napoleonic era #petya absolutely Does NOT look forward to hosting balls 😩💀

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It do be like that on Imperial Russian Army High Command in 1812 🥲🥲🤪

#aight 'high command' might not be the exact term there but... #y'know more or less 😅🤪 #not art #nothing of significance ofc 😅 #history memes #napoleonic #napoleonic era #napoleon's invasion on russia #alexey ermolov #pyotr ivanovich bagration #petre bagrationi #prince bagration #grand duke konstantin #tsar alexander i #michael andreas barclay de tolly #just thought of this as I read the book 😅😂 (the russian officer corps of the revolutionary and napoleonic wars) #pyotr bagration #michael barclay de tolly #алексей ермолов #михаил богданович барклай-де-толли

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...at least that's the case for me! 🤪

#strange but true #not art #nothing of significance ofc 😅 #literature memes #sort of #lmao #it's crack o'clock folks #kinda lol #petre bagrationi #pyotr bagration #pyotr ivanovich bagration #петр иванович багратион #war and peace #война и мир #david farragut #david glasgow farragut #twenty thousand leagues under the sea #(...yes really(!!)) #leo tolstoy #jules verne #farragut friday #in that strange continum where i introduce people from various era lmao #napoleonic era #napoleonic #american history #american civil war

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Petya and his pup on a walk ✨

#yeah the pupper's close to grown up here but still...🙈 #drawing #original art #manga #illustration #vignette #traditional art #pen and ink #fountain pen #fan art #petre bagrationi #pyotr bagration #pyotr ivanovich bagration #петр иванович багратион #modern au of sorts #napoleonic #caucasian ovcharka #the pup's name is snezhok aka. tovli aka snow(ball) 🥰🐕

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Periodic reminder that you too can get drawings like this if you support me on my ko-fi with $9 or more tip! So what are you waiting for? 😉😺

#drawing #original art #manga #pen and ink #traditional art #brush pen #fountain pen #fan art #william t sherman #wt sherman #william tecumseh sherman #pyotr ivanovich bagration #pyotr bagration #petre bagrationi #ulysses s grant #david farragut #david glasgow farragut #петр иванович багратион #ko-fi #ko-fi link #doodle for a ko-fi tip! #artists on tumblr

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Buds™✨

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Right after that fateful introduction Billy and Petya instantly became fast friends. He showed him around everywhere around campus and beyond, accompanying him to every place if needed be (admittedly bordering on possesiveness (there was a time where Petya wanted to meet up with fellow Georgian compatriots in town and Billy insisted on going with him he had to be turned away politely a few times 🤣🙈)).

Petya, on his part, highly appreciated his new friend and guide, not just to the new university, but also to the city and the country as a whole. There was almost no day where they weren't having fun together (often with Thomas in tow as well 😂).

Needless to say that Billy was one of the reason why Petya's exchange year became the most memorable time of his college year.

#it took a while for them to reconnect after a while #but once they did they stayed in touch #it's the cats' pajamas 😺😺 #in that strange continum where I introduce people from various era lmao #drawing #original art #manga #pen and ink #traditional art #brush pen #drawing pen #fan art #william t sherman #william tecumseh sherman #wt sherman #petre bagrationi #pyotr ivanovich bagration #pyotr bagration #modern au of sorts #петр багратион #петр иванович багратион

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Sherman could absolutely get a new actually(!)🤣 Georgian friend, as a birthday present treat 😏😉

#drawing #original art #manga #illustration #pen and ink #traditional art #fountain pen #fan art #instafeed au #modern au of sorts #petre bagrationi #pyotr bagration #pyotr ivanovich bagration #петр иванович багратион #william tecumseh sherman #william t sherman #wt sherman #(yea I meant to draw this on his bday month but...🥴🥴🙃🤪💀) #petya bringing georgian wine over to chez oncle billy 😏😉 #in that strange continum where i introduce people from various era lmao

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#drawing #original art #manga #illustration #pen and ink #traditional art #fountain pen #fan art #modern au of sorts #caucasian ovcharka #petre bagrationi #pyotr ivanovich bagration #pyotr bagration #петр иванович багратион #dogs

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Petya deserves a puppy, so here goes 😏😉🐕

#one of those 'meant to be quick' draws that ended up taking too long lmaosob #drawing #original art #manga #illustration #pen and ink #traditional art #fountain pen #fan art #modern au of sorts #petya with a pupper! #and not just any pupper... it's a #caucasian shepherd hound #caucasian ovcharka #petre bagrationi #pyotr bagration #pyotr ivanovich bagration #(yeah i should probably tone the pupper's fur but I got no steam left in me 🙃🥲) #...and at that size that puppy is still...well...a puppy(!!) #napoleonic #петр иванович багратион #dogs

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Khachapuri!

#in the universe where sherman tries khachapuri 😂 #instafeed au #drawing #original art #manga #illustration #drawing pen #pen and ink #traditional art #fan art #petre bagrationi #pyotr ivanovich bagration #prince bagration #pyotr bagration #wt sherman #william t sherman #william tecumseh sherman #in that strange continum where i introduce people from various era lmao #random reminder that sherman visited tbilisi on his eurotrip 😅😂😂🙈

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#archived later maybe #idk 🙈 #drawing #original art #manga #pen and ink #drawing pen #traditional art #fan art #instafeed au #modern au of sorts #william t sherman #wt sherman #william tecumseh sherman #pyotr ivanovich bagration #prince bagration #petre bagrationi #петр иванович багратион #seen here having wine in tbilisi lmao #random reminder that sherman visited tbilisi on his eurotrip 😅😂😂🙈 #a little warm up (...again!!) #pyotr bagration #it's crack o'clock folks

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Ты знаешь, что Грузиа не горит??!? 🤪🤪🤪 (Что Грузиа никогда не горела??? 😉🤪😉🤪)

LMAO I thought I could make the pun work in Russian as well but ofc it couldn't 🤪 but hey In case you want to see the whole page of the drawings of Sherman in Caucasian Georgia, here you go 😏😉🤪😂

#drawing #original art #manga #illustration #pen and ink #brush pen #drawing pen #traditional art #fan art #instafeed au #this is hella random 💀 #it's crack o'clock folks #random reminder that sherman visited tbilisi on his eurotrip 😅😂😂🙈 #in that strange continum where i introduce people from various era lmao #wt sherman #william t sherman #william tecumseh sherman #petre bagrationi #pyotr ivanovich bagration #pyotr bagration #prince bagration