zinaida yusupova impressed the artist so much that she had to pose for 80 sessions.t the external resemblance and finished the work only when he achieved an amazing effect. if you look at the canvas without looking up, then it seems that you hear laughter, and yusupov's eyes shine. so like. these are the eyes of a living person, one cannot say that serov favored the aristocracy, but after completing this portrait. he said that if all the rich people in russia were like zinaida yusupova, there would be no revolution in the country, but no less diligently. serov wrote to share nicholas ii they say this is the best portrait of the last emperor. although while working on it, the artists were constantly annoyed by the advice of the empress alexandra feodorovna, she wanted to to make the husband look more imposing like his father alexander iii, then look. nikolaev was too simple serov - it was terribly angry and during one of the sessions, he handed the queen a liter and a brush and offered to finish the work for him. zinaida nikolaevna and felix and felixovich had two son