The lithograph reproduces a fragment of the portrait of the wife of Russian Emperor Alexander II Empress Maria Alexandrovna in mourning (after the death of the eldest son, Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich in 1865). The provenance of the lithograph is from the funds of The State Rumyantsev Museum and from The Fine Arts Museum. Drawing Smirnov P. (1823 – after 1865) and Pashennyi F. (1817–1860s). Lithographer Gundrizer R. (From the picture of Makarov I. (1822–1897).