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    Louis Caravaque (French pronunciation: [lwi kaʁavak], Marseilles, 1684–1754, St. Petersburg) was a French portrait painter who worked in Russia. Caravaque...
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    of Russia Part of the Great Northern War The Battle of Poltava by Louis Caravaque Belligerents Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate Kalmyk Khanate Sandomierz...
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    work of Denis Diderot, Jacques Necker, Johann Bernhard Basedow and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Catherine expressed some frustration with the...
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    invasion of Russia during the Great Northern War The Battle of Poltava by Louis Caravaque Belligerents  Swedish Empire Cossack Hetmanate Tsardom of Russia Kalmyk...
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    Empress Anna Ivanovna with her crown, portrait by Louis Caravaque....
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    learnt the art of portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin and Louis Caravaque; he also studied icon painting with Vasily Vasilevsky. He is known...
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    Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeyevna, 1745, by Louis Caravaque...
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    Saint Petersburg. He also studied portrait art from the court painter Louis Caravaque of France. In 1749 Alexei received the rank of the Painter's Apprentice...
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    negotiations with the Polish nobility factions which included Prince James Louis Sobieski, magnate Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski and Cardinal Michał Stefan...
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    Young Catherine soon after her arrival in Russia, by Louis Caravaque...
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