Adolsky (Odolsky) Ivan the Great

was born in the second half of XVII century and worked until the reign of Anna Ioannovna

Most remarkable of the family Adolsky - painters and icon painters - was Ivan the Great, has attained the rank of master at the Moscow Armory. In 1711, Ivan Adolsky was transferred to the service in St. Petersburg, to study patterns in the printing. In addition, he taught drawing, engraving students at the school yard to the master. Salary his putting was on 100 rubles a year in cash and 25 yuftey bread - in kind or in cash, at existing prices. In addition to painting, Ivan Adolsky with Zubov worked engraved portraits, and fulfilled person, and everything else did Zubov. The portrait of Catherine I, kept in print on the collection of engravings of the General Staff, signed: "Identity Adolsky shade. In engraving, Ivan Adolsky served on enamel portraits of personages of the Imperial House and others in the reign of Peter I, Catherine I and Peter II.

In 1721, Ivan Adolsky wrote on enamel portraits of Their Majesties, in 1725 - Portraits Buturlina and Stroeva, Stepan Neledinskogo, Ivan Turgenev and Rzhev. In 1727, following the closure of printing plant, worked in Moscow, Synodal at the office, where he completed a portrait of the Austrian Empress (an aunt of Emperor Peter II's mother). In St. Petersburg, the Peter and Paul Cathedral, preserved iconostasis image in the aisle of the Presentation Church of Our Lady and the icon of the Apostle Paul, painted by Ivan the Great Adolsky. Since the departure of Ivan Adolsky from St. Petersburg to Moscow, September 4, 1728, news of him ceased.