In a series of portraits depicting representatives of the Pushkin era, there is a portrait of the eldest daughter of General Nikolay Nikolaevich Raevsky — Ekaterina Nikolaevna Orlova. “All his daughters are lovely, the eldest is an extraordinary woman, ” Pushkin wrote to his brother from Chisinau in September 1820.
Ekaterina Nikolaevna met Alexander Pushkin in St.
Petersburg in 1817. But they got to know each other better when the Raevskys
and the poet traveled around the Caucasus in 1820. They often talked and argued
about literature. Pushkin spoke of Ekaterina Nikolaevna with great respect in
his letters. He wrote to his brother,
