The War Gallery of 1812 was created in 1826 to the deign of Carlo Rossi to commemorate Russia's victory over Napoleonic France. Its walls carry 332 portraits of generals who fought in the war of 1812 and the foreign campaign of 1813-14. They were painted by the English artist George Dawe with the assistance of Wilhelm Golike and Alexander Poliakov. Places of honour are allotted to the formal portraits of the allied rulers: Emperor Alexander I of Russia and King Frederick William III of Prussia (both by Franz Kruger) and Emperor Francis I of Austria (by Johann-Peter Krafft). The portraits of four field marshals flank the doors leading to the Armorial and St George Halls.
