A sheet with the artist’s watercolour

attached to the menu card of the ceremonial dinner with a concert “Fanfare in Kremlin” organised by the commissars of the 1900 Exposition Universelle in the Hotel Continental for members of the French Parliament and high-profile guests

Paris, June 17, 1900

The miniature was commissioned from the artist as well as a few other Russian artisans by the Princess Maria Tenisheva, who was in charge of the reception, together with the wife of the American commissar