Foreign Exhibition 

The Exhibition of One Painting – The Portrait of Catherine the Great with St George’s Ribbon

Until 12 January 2020 

Ekaterininsky Hall, Grand Palace, State Museum - Reserve of History, Architecture, Art and Landscape "Tsaritsyno", Moscow, Russian Federation

Heritage Malta is participating in this exhibition with the painting of Catherine the Great with St George’s Ribbon . It is the only artefact on display in the exhibition organised on the occasion of the inauguration for public viewing of the Ekaterininsky Hall and its adjacent wing and the 290th Anniversary of the Great Empress birthday.

The painting by the great Russian painter Dimitri Grigorevich Levitzky (1735-1822) was painted in 1787 and was given as a diplomatic gift by Catherine the Great to Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan Polduc in 1790 to show her gratitude for maritime services and help by the ships of the Order of St John against their common enemy, the Ottoman Empire.

The painting forms part of the National Collection and is displayed in the prestigious Ambassadors Room of the Grand Master's Palace in Valletta.