Labels:book | bulletin board | fountain | person | sculpture | tribute album OCR: characters brimming with initiative look on us from the portraits of this epoch of reform (I.N. Nikitin, "Portrait of Count G.I. Golovkin' 1720 In the 1730s when Empress Anna ascended Russian throne, the swift development Rus sian culture abated. The businesslike simple inherently significant art of the first quarter of the 18th century is replaced with heavy ornamentation and crude solemnity Caravaque, "Portrait mpress Anna loannovna' 1730 The rule of Empress Elizaveta which was regarded by her contemporaries as the continuation of the Petrine period, marked by a new upheaval in public and cultural life This is when M.V. Lomono SOV is pursuing his multifaceted activity, Moscow developmeni Russiar nultifaceted
