The portrait bust of Alexander Menshikov was created by the Italian sculptor Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, who worked on commissions in Rome and Paris before coming to St Petersburg. This was the first sculptural portrait that Rastrelli made in Russia. It is considered that in this work the sculptor attained the greatest likeness to his subject. The bust was executed in the Baroque style and in the traditions of the Western European formal portrait. The Prince is depicted wearing armour and a mantle with the star of the Order of St Andrew the First-Called and the badges of two foreign orders - the Polish Order of White Eagle and the Prussian Order of Black Eagle. The armour is embellished with relief depictions of episodes in the Northern War.