Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky (Russian: Константин Дмитриевич Флавицкий; 25 September [O.S.

The following year, he was recognized as an honorary free member of the Academy for the large painting Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum, commissioned by the Duchess of Leuchtenberg in Rome.

His most famous painting is Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood based on the legend of the death of Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova, the self-styled daughter of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky and Elizabeth of Russia in her prison cellar during the flood in Saint Petersburg.

"In his art Konstantin Flavitsky adhered to classical traditions, the principles bequeathed by K. P. Bryullov.

The work is based on a legend from Russian history according to which Princess Tarakanova, who said she was the daughter of Empress Elizabeth and Alexei Razumovsky and laid claim to the Russian throne in Catherine the Great's reign, died in the Peter and Paul Fortress during the flood of 1777.