2614840 Artemy Volynsky at a Russian cabinet sitting, 1875 (oil on canvas) by Jacobi, Valeri Ivanovich (1834-1902); Regional M. Vrubel Art Museum, Omsk; (add.info.: Artemy Petrovich Volynsky (1689??740) was a Russian statesman and diplomat. His career started as a soldier but was rapidly upgraded to Governor of Astrakhan under Peter the Great. He was later accused of corruption and stripped of nearly all his powers, before Catherine I of Russia sent him to govern the vast Governorate of Kazan. ).