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[ROYAL FAMILY] MELNIK-BOTKINA Tatiana (1898–1986)
Memoirs of…
See original version (French)
268
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[ROYAL FAMILY] MELNIK-BOTKINA Tatiana (1898–1986)
Memoirs of…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[ROYAL FAMILY]
MELNIK-BOTKINA Tatiana (1898–1986)
Memoirs of the royal family and her life before and after the revolution. Published by Librairie slave M.I. Stefanovitch et Cie, Belgrade, 1921. 83 pp., ill., in-4, later binding (retains the publisher’s cover), autograph note ‘Nikolai Kotliarewsky’ on the title page A.B.E. (missing at the edge of the title page).
Russian Art
[THE ROYAL FAMILY]
MELNIK-BOTKINA Tatyana (1898–1986)
Memoirs of the royal family and their life before and after the revolution. Published by the All-Slavic Bookshop M.I. Stefanovich & Co., Belgrade, 1921. 83 pp., ill., 29.5 x 22.5 cm, owner’s binding (using the publisher’s cover), handwritten bookplate ‘Nikolai Kotlyarevsky’ on the title page, general condition (a fragment is missing from the title page).
In her book, Tatyana Yevgenyevna recounts the life of the royal family in Tobolsk and their martyrdom in Yekaterinburg. The book includes, as an appendix, unique archival documents—letters from the court physician E.S. Botkin, as well as the memoirs of V.S. Pankratov, Count P.K. Benckendorff, All-Russian Central Executive Committee representative V.V. Yakovlev, and G.K. Lukomsky, chairman of the Art and History Commission for the Protection of the Palace Administration’s Property.
See original version (French)
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