Vadim Gorbatov painting of the Tsar of Russia's Falconer

Vadim Gorbatov's art Gallery
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Falconer of the Tsar Aleksei Mihailovich

Falconer of the Tsar Aleksei Mihailovich

Vadim Gorbatov’s painting of a Royal falconer to the Tsar shows the successful culmination of a flight of a trained peregrine falcon at duck.
Most or the Kings and Queens across Europe maintained Royal Mews with teams of trained falcons and many falconers to look after them.
This would painting shows a scene that would date around 1650, the Tsar’s first born of his second marriage to Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina in 1672 was Petr I Alekeseevich who became Peter The Great Emperor of Russia.