Enfilade

From the State Historical Museum website:

Russian Portrait Engravings of the 18th Century
State Historical Museum, Moscow, 6 October — 21 November 2010

For the first time the richest and little-known Museum’s collection of engraved portraits is exhibited. Two hundred works executed by the best Russian and foreign masters permit visitors to see the whole variety of Russian portraits — equestrian, child’s, full-length, and half-length. At the exhibition there are engraved portraits of the epochs of Peter the Great, Empress Anna, Empress Elizabeth, Catherine the Great, and Paul I. Among the exhibits there are unique prints and copper plates. Engraved portrait is a bright phenomenon of Russia’s artistic culture; at the same time it is an invaluable historical source of images of famous Russians of the 18th century: imperial, statesmen, military leaders, court nobility, men of letters, and scientists.