This portrait shows Ioannis Kapodistrias (Greek: Ἰωάννης Καποδίστριας), the foreign minister of Russia at the time of the Greek War of Independence. He is pictured here wearing a fur-lined coat and a star that likely represents the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky - a Russian chivalric order formed to commend military bravery. Kapodistrias would go on to become the first head of state for independent Greece.
