Bidspirit auction | (RUSSIA). Two Autograph Letters Signed

(RUSSIA). Two Autograph Letters Signed written in Hebrew from Siberia to R. Zalman Chaim Rivlin of Jerusalem. Sent by R. Yitzchak ben Mendel Fromenberg of Irkutsk and R. Yisrael Shlomo Zalman Pommels of Chita, requesting Ethrogim for Sukoth. Each two pages. 8vo. Irkutsk & Chita Lag B’Omer and Erev Chag HaShavu’oth, 1889. Jewish communities began to develop in Siberia in the early half of the 19th century bolstered by the arrival of ex-Cantonist conscripts. R. Zalman Chaim Rivlin (1838-1902) was a prominent member of Jerusalem’s Old Yishuv.