Portraits of Konstantin Leontiev in the Collection of the State Historical Museum

Abstract

This article accompanies the publication of previously unknown portraits of Konstantin Leontiev (1831–1891) preserved in the State Historical Museum in Moscow: a drawing by K. Osokin (1844), a sketch by R. Dorokhov (1848), and a unique photograph that belonged to the writer himself and bears the owner’s inscription. The authors elicit the history of these and some other items associated with Leontiev, now in the possession of the Museum, and see their work as a contribution to his anniversary in 2021.