The Unknown Girl is a work completed by the Russian painter Kramskoy in 1883 and is now displayed in the Trechakov Museum of Art in Moscow.
This is a portrait of a character of considerable aesthetic value, the artist expresses the subject's spiritual temperament with great skill.The anonymous girl in the painting is arrogant and self-respecting. She is dressed in the luxurious clothes of Russian high society and sits in a luxurious cabriolet with the famous Alexander Theater in St. Petersburg in the background. Exactly who the "unknown girl" is is still a mystery.The painter created a new style of expression in portrait painting, depicting portraits with thematic plot, showing a strong, decisive, full of thoughts, and exuding youthful vitality of the Russian intellectual female image.
