Bidspirit auction | SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA) (Rebbetzin /

SCHNEERSON, MOUSSIA (CHAYA-MUSHKA) (Rebbetzin / Wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 1901-88). Autograph Letter Signed to Nacha Feigel Rivkin (nee Heber). Written entirely in Russian, comments on her upcoming marriage to the future Lubavitcher Rebbe: “I am a fiancee… This winter I shall be getting married. I shall be marrying my distant family relative and namesake… This is a very long story which has lasted for several years.” Postcard-size, densely written on both sides. English translation accompanies the lot. Riga, (Latvia), 21st September, 1928. Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson was the second of the three daughters of the Friediker Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950), and wife to R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-94), who succeeded his father-in-law’s title as Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1951. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka writes here to her life-long friend, Necha (Nacha) Rivkin (1900-88), emphasizes how close she feels to her and her family. Comments about receiving a photograph of Nacha and how all three Schneerson sisters enthusiastically reacted upon seeing it. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka arrived in Riga with her family in the Fall of 1927, after her father, the Friediker Rebbe, was banished from Russia. On the 14th of Kislev, 1928, she celebrated her marriage in Warsaw to R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, her distant cousin, both descendants of the Tzemach Tzedek (1789-1866) the third Rebbe of Chabad Lubavitch - whose name was Menachem Mendel and whose wife’s name was Chaya-Mushka (daughter of the Mittler Rebbe, d. 1860).