Autograph Letters, Manuscripts & Historical Documents
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Mar 16, 2023
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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DOLGORUKOV VASILY ALEXANDROVICH: (1868-1918) Russian Prince, a Marshal of the Imperial Court and advisor to Tsar Nicholas II. Following the arrest of the Russian Imperial Family after the February Revolution Dolgorukov voluntarily accompanied the Tsar and his family into internal exile at Tsarskoe Selo. Barred from joining them in Yekaterinburg in April 1918, the Prince was taken and killed in July 1918 on order of the Bolshevik revolutionary Grigory Nikulin, who would go on to murder the Romanov family a week later. A scarce vintage signed sepia cabinet photograph by Dolgorukov, the oval sepia albumen print by Karoli & Pusch of Warsaw depicting the Prince in a head and shoulders pose. Signed in dark fountain pen ink to the lower photographer's mount, with a sentiment in Cyrillic, ' As a memento of love and respect for my life companion', and dated 1881 in his hand, most likely as a reference to the year of the assassination of Emperor Alexander II (whose mistress and morganatic wife was a member of the House of Dolgorukov) rather than the date of the photograph. With photographer's imprint to the lower mount and verso. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and two minor traces of former mounting to the upper corners of the verso, otherwise VG
