Photograph of Princess Kotschoubey in court dress, full-length, facing half to the left, holding a fan in her right hand while holding her left hand at waist level, studio backdrop in the background. 

The Princess, née Elena Bibikov, firstly married Prince Esper Belosselsky-Belozersky (1802-46) and subsequently Prince Kotschoubey, the son of the chancellor of the Russian empire. She travelled extensively and was renowed for lavishly entertaining her guests in her palace on the Nevsky Prospekt in St Petersburg, where her balls rivaled in splendour and grandeur those of the court.

Eichenwald started his career as a photographer in St Petersburg, soon after graduating from the Academy of Arts in 1858, eventually moving to Moscow in 1867. He became a well-established figure in the city and received a gold medal for portraits at the Polytechnic Exhibition of 1872. Eichenwald was also the first Moscow photographer to start shooting under electric lighting from early 1880. In 1896, he sold his atelier to another photographer, a certain KD Lupandin, who continued to trade under the same name.