In the Military Gallery of 1812 in the Winter Palace, individual frames with signed names, but without portraits, attract attention. The descriptions of the gallery indicate that for its opening, which took place on December 25, 1826, from the portraits of military leaders in 1812, commissioned by the General Staff, in the art studio of J. R. R. Tolkien, the gallery was opened in 1826. Dow 1, 13 portraits were not executed; the frames for them were tightened with reps and placed on the walls. Dow died soon after, his workshop was closed, "and this group was never written - the 13-name box was left blank." 2Later, descriptions of the participants ' activities were repeatedly compiled. 1 The English painter J. R. R. Tolkien Dow (1781-1829) was invited to Russia in 1819 to create a memorial portrait gallery of the Winter Palace. Of the 332 portraits created in his studio at the Hermitage, Dow's brushes belonged to about 150, the rest were executed by Russian artists A.V. Polyakov and V. A. Golika (Pomarnitsky A.V. Military Gallery of 1812. l. 1970, p. 6). 2 Glinka V. M., Pomarnitsky A.V. Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, 2nd ed., 1981, p. 23 (1st ed., 1974). page 182 the Wars of 1812 3 . However, for the 11 generals who entered the Military Gallery, this was not done, and their portraits are unknown. It was only in 1974 that brief information about them was given for the first time. One of these heroes is Major General Alexey Matveyevich Vsevolozhsky, chief of the Elisavetgrad Hussar Regiment, brigade commander in the cavalry corps of F. P. Uvarov 4 . Based on archival materials and research, it was possible to restore the facts of the military activity of this military leader 5, as well as to find his portrait 6 . Alexey Matveyevich belonged to an old family. The princes of Vsevolozhi left the Smolensk Principality for the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the middle of the 14th century. Dmitry and Vladimir Vsevolozhi were voivodes of the advanced regiment of Dmitry Donsk ... Read more