Четыре интерьера и один диван. Романтическое эссе
Four interiors and one sofa. A romantic essay

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the analysis of interior decoration details captured on 4 paintings. It’s notable that two of them, the picture painting by Kapiton Zelenzov (from Tretyakov gallery) and the canvas of an unknown author (from the State historical museum) have the image of the same room based on the upper level of a landlord’s house, but with a 20 year difference. The first picture is dated 1830, the second — the beginning of 1850s. The interior decoration of a room from Zelenzov painting is typical for the «Alexander Empire style». The furniture made of mahogany has strict and compact lines. The design from the second picture looks brighter and more colorful. The furniture is the same, but it’s changed because of gold plated details that added to a view a romantic sense of style of Nicolas I. The sofa attracts a particular attention as is decorated at the bottom with three-dimensional gold plated details in form of swans, which give it a unique view. But the most astonishing thing is that the very same sofa «with swans» the author of this article found on another picture from the private collection. The picture was published in the journal «Pinacoteca» in 1998 (Vol. 4). It was believed to be one of the variants of a work from the collection of State historical museum, dated 1820s. But the fact that it shows the sofa from 1850s doesn’t allow us to date it back to 1820s as it was thought before. In other words, the picture from a private collection dates 1890s and presents a so-called «remake» of two mentioned canvases from the collection of State historical museum. Thus the image of the same sofa on the three out of four mentioned pictures allows us not only to state a more exact date of one of them, but also to refer the origins of all four to one family collection. The article also has assumptions about those people who are shown on the paintings; the author believes that all of them are members of Golizyn-Golovkin family, whose progenitor was a famous figure of Peter the Great’s époque, a chancellor count G. Golovkin.

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