In order not to jump on the links, I will give a quote about this figure of the late 17th century, the shortest one with a key line
“Dolgoruky Yakov Fyodorovich (1639-1720), prince - one of the closest associates of Peter I. After the death of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, he was among the supporters of the minor Peter. In 1687 Dolgoruky was sent with an embassy to France and Spain to attract them to the Holy League against the Turks, which included Russia, Poland, Venice and Austria. Dolgoruky's mission had no chance of success due to France's interest in maintaining friendship with Turkey and its old rivalry with Austria. In addition, Dolgoruky was not flexible enough in matters of ambassadorial rank and, fearing a "loss of honor" for his sovereigns, created difficulties in negotiations with Louis XIV. So, Dolgoruky said that the tsarist ambassador would accept the letter of return from Louis XIV only from the hands of the king, which caused great irritation to Louis. In 1700, near Narva, Dolgoruky was in charge of supplying the army and was captured by the Swedes. In 1711 he escaped from captivity. In 1714 Dolgoruky, decisively opposing the conclusion of a trade agreement with Holland, which provided Dutch merchants with the right to free trade throughout Russia, insisted on rejecting the agreement, contrary to the opinion of the Senate."
It is important that he was in France once.
In Wikipedia and in general in all official sources, the following picture with a portrait of Yakov Dolgoruky is stored
Charles Lebrun wrote this one. Portrait of YF Dolgorukov, painted in 1687 during his visit to Paris. This image is in Wikipedia and in history books - everywhere!
And here is what a contemporary, another French engraver, Bonnart Nicolas, depicted.
Promotional video:
The third print is also like Bonnart.
Fourth engraving! Similar to the generally accepted portrait - a cross between a European, but still a caftan and a hat.
This is not for you to explore the different shapes of our president's ears and think, and which one is real!:)
How could one and the same person be portrayed so differently?
The first portrait depicts a European type of person, the second - some kind of Turkish chieftain. In fact, the second image is correct.
Based on the reconstruction of history, which is as close to me as possible, the first portrait of the "Caucasian" type fits very much into the reformatting of our Russian history, or rather, the concealment and manipulation of the facts of the collapse of the Russian Empire at the end of the 17th century.
Dolgoruky, in fact, were traitors to the court of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and it is no coincidence that Louis was annoyed by the demand of Yakov Dolgoruky to meet the king personally. Indeed, for Ludovig, Dolgoruky was an impostor and he did not possess any legal force. Ludovig was loyal to the old empire of the Russian tsars, like Turkey (they are all parts of one whole). Therefore, he did not support Dolgoruky's mission.