Portrait of Prince Pyotr Bagration with Three Orders of Saint George and Three Orders of Maria Theresa

Amazing portrait painted by an unknown artist sometime between 1806 and 1807. Collection of Georgian State Picture Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Three Saint George orders (of the same size) and three orders of Maria Theresa (once again of the very same size!). Meanwhile Prince Pyotr Bagration was awarded with only one Saint George order /2nd class in 1805/ and only one order of Maria Theresa /2nd class in 1799/. It seems that the artist assumed that the Prince was awarded the two lower classes of each order.
 
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration[nb 1] (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was was born in Kizlyar. His father, Ivan (Ivane), served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, in which Bagration also enlisted in 1782. Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration began his military career serving in the Russo-Circassian War of 1763–1864 for a couple of years. Afterwards he participated in a war against the Ottomans and the capture of Ochakov in 1788. Later he helped suppress the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 in Poland and capture Warsaw. During Russia's Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1799 against the French, he served with distinction under Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov.

In 1805 Russia joined the coalition against Napoleon. After the collapse of the Austrians at Ulm in October 1805, Bagration won praise for his successful defense in the Battle of Schöngrabern (November 1805) that allowed Russian forces to withdraw and unite with the main Russian army of Mikhail Kutuzov. In December 1805 the combined Russo-Austrian army suffered defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz, where Bagration commanded the allied right wing against the French under Jean Lannes. Later he commanded Russian troops in the Finnish War (1808–1809) against Sweden and in another war against the Turks (1806–1812) on the Danube.

During the French invasion of Russia in 1812, Bagration commanded one of two large Russian armies (Barclay de Tolly commanded the other) fighting a series of rear-guard actions. The Russians failed to stop the French advance at the Battle of Smolensk in August 1812. Barclay had proposed a scorched-earth retreat that the Emperor Alexander I of Russia had approved, although Bagration preferred to confront the French in a major battle. Mikhail Kutuzov succeeded Barclay as Commander-in-Chief but continued his policy until the Battle of Borodino (7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1812) near Moscow. Bagration commanded the left wing around what became known as the Bagration flèches at Borodino, where he was mortally wounded; he died a couple of weeks later. Originally buried at a local church, in 1839 he was reburied on the battlefield of Borodino.​


Portrait /painted by an unknown artist/ from Rybinsk State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve.

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Portrait of Pyotr Bagration painted by George Dawe.

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