A talented portraitist, he executed the portraits of many personalities, among which were the Pope Pius XI, Serge Lifar, Yvette Chauviré, Arthur Honegger, Edwige Feuillère, Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, Princess Vassili, Aleksandr Benois, Zinaida Serebriakova, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff, Paul Valéry, Jacques Fath, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jefferson Caffery.
Hanna-Barbera | Alexandre Dumas | Joseph Barbera | Alexandre Benois | Alexandre Guilmant | Alexandre Yersin | Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis | Barbera | Alexandre Pires | Alexandre Herculano | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff | Alexandre-Antonin Taché | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois | Alexandre Michon | Alexandre Lenoir | Alexandre Koyré | Alexandre Calame | Alexandre-Athenase Noghès | Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny | Pierre-Alexandre Aveline | Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron | Henri-Alexandre Wallon | Barbera (disambiguation) | Alexandre Vinet | Alexandre Tharaud | Alexandre Silva Cleyton | Alexandre Pato's | Alexandre Pato |
Eugene Nicolaievich Ivanoff of Poland, who claimed to be Tsarevich Alexei Romanov in the mid-1920s, was one of the first in a long line of Romanov impostors to emerge from various parts of the world following the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family at Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918.
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and Soviet political repression of the early 1980s prior to perestroika, Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams), a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family.