A double-sided portrait miniature with a chest-high portrait of a boy in a coral-coloured Russian-style shirt is inserted in the oval glass plate. It is fixed flexible. The viewer sees not only the face of the child, but his back and neck, that is, the reverse of the miniature. The miniature is fixed on an artistically decorated stand with four Renaissance male and female figurines. The whole composition is mounted on a rectangular base lined with lapis lazuli, on the reverse side of which is the name and title of the depicted person: "ГОСУДАРЬ ЦЕСАРЕВИЧЬ и ВЕЛИКIЙ КНЯЗЬ НИКОЛАЙ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧЬ" (CROWN PRINCE OF RUSSIAN EMPIRE and GRAND DUKE NIKOLAY ALEXANDROVICH). Presented series of portraits is stylistically and compositionally close to children's portraits of the 1850s by the Court artist Woldemar Hau (1816-1895). This miniature could be executed on the master's layout original.

Alexander III Alexandrovich (1845-1894) – the Grand Duke, Crown Prince of the Russian Empire, the Emperor (since 1881), the second son of the Emperor Alexander II (1818-1881) and the Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880). Crowned on May 15, 1883. In 1886, he married the Princess Maria-Sophia-Frederica-Dagmar of Denmark, who adopted in the Orthodoxy the name of Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928). He died in Livadia. Buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral.

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