#1 – Portrait of Maria Lopukhina, Vladimir Borovikovsky
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Finally, the "bad painting" of russian edition is a portrait of Lopukhina written by Vladimir Borovikovsky in 1797, after a while began to have a bad reputation. The portrait was depicted Lopukhina Maria, who died shortly after writing the portrait. People began to say that the picture "takes youth away" and even "brings to the grave."
It is not known who has started a rumor, but after Pavel Tretyakov, has fearlessly acquired the portrait to his gallery, talk of a "puzzle picture" subsided.
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