Valentin Alexandrovich Serov was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Belle Époque, active in St. Petersburg and Moscow, generally considered the primary portraitist of his generation.
Serov during the 1900s, photographed by Karl Fischer
The Girl Covered by the Sun, 1888
Serov painting Felix Yusupov, 1903
Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's participation in Wor
Valentin Serov
…Rimsky-Korsakov (1898) Mika Morozov, portrait of Margarita Morozova's son Mika (1901) Portrait of Princess Zinaida Yusupova (1900-1902) Portrait of Tsar Nicholas II (1902) Bathing of a horse (1905) Portrait of Maxim Gorky (1905) Portrait of Henriette Hirschmann (1907) Portrait of Ivan Morozov (1910) The Kidnapping…
Nicholas II in Nikolo Tikhonov Monastery 01
Nicholas with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870
Nicholas with his cousin, George V of the United Kingdom (right), wearing German military uniforms in Berlin before the war; 1913