№ 504-507. On the bicentennial of birth of A.S.Pushkin. Portraits of A.S.PUSHKIN.

A portrait of A.S.Pushkin by S.G.Chirikov (c.1815, aquarelle on paper, pastel. 17.5x13.7. The Russian Museum of A.S.Pushkin, St.Petersburg).

A portrait of A.S.Pushkin by I.E.Vivienn (1826, Italian pencil on paper, whites. 17x13. The Pushkin House, the Institute of the Russian Literature, St.Petersburg).

A portrait of A.S.Pushkin by K.P.Briullov (1836, papier-mache. oil. 12x8.5. The State Museum of A.S.Pushkin, Moscow).

The margins of the sheet feature a collage of drawings by artists of the early 19th century, Pushkin's contemporaries. In the left part there is "Ball at Prince Baryatinky's" (by G.G.Gagarin, early 1830s, aquarelle). In the right part there is "A lunch at A.F.Smirdin's, a publisher" (by A.P.Briullov, 1833, sepia). In the upper margin the text reads "The 200th Birth Anniversary of A.S.Pushkin", in the lower margin there is a quote from Pushkin "In centuries to come I shall be loved by the people / For having awakened noble thoughts with my lyre…" (1836).

The upper margin of the sheetlet bears the text "The 200th Birth Anniversary of A.S. Pushkin". In the lower margin there is a drawing by E.E.Lanceret of Tsarskoye Selo (1910) and a Pushkin's monument in the town of Pushkin (Leningrad Region, 1898-1900, by R.R.Bach), and a quote from Pushkin "Exegi Monumentum".