Aleksey Arakcheyev
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Count Alexey Andreyevich Arakcheyev or Arakcheev was an Imperial Russian general and statesman during the reign of Tsar Alexander I.
Portrait by George Dawe (Military Gallery of the Winter Palace)
Coat of arms of the counts of Arakcheyev. Motto: By work and diligence. Reduced copy of a real coat of arms.
Another portrait by George Dawe, Hermitage Museum
Alexander I of Russia
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Alexander I, nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death in 1825. He was the eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.
Portrait by George Dawe, c. 1825-29
Confirmation of Alexander's wife Elizabeth Alexeievna
Portrait of Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, 1800, by Vladimir Borovikovsky
Equestrian portrait of Alexander I by Franz Krüger (1837, posthumous)