1 / 2
an old book with a picture of a man and a woman on itan open book with a picture of a man on a horse in a box
MILLON

398 - Makcheev, Fyodor Andreyevich, 1855–1932
See original version (French)

Estimate €600 - €800
Sale commission
Description
Makcheev, Fyodor Andreyevich, 1855–1932 МАКШЕЕВ, Фёдор Андреевич, Professor Emeritus of the Imperial Nicholas Military Academy, active member of the Imperial Russian Society of Military History — compiler of the text and maps. For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland. The Patriotic War of 1812 in Pictures. 1812–1912 (For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland. The Patriotic War of 1812 in Pictures. 1812–1912) — a commemorative album marking the centenary. Paris, published by Ilya Lapin (Издание И. С. Лапина), [1912]. Published on special commission from the ‘Kultura’ ’ (Kultūra) in Saint Petersburg, Vilnius, Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinoslav, Irkutsk, Kyiv, Łódź, Moscow, Odessa, Riga, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Tashkent, Tbilisi and Kharkiv. [4], IV, 40 pp., 58 plates of colour illustrations (portraits, paintings, maps), 56 pp. of explanatory text; 44 cm. Illustrations based on works by V. V. Vereshchagin, A. D. Kivchenko, I. M. Priagnichnikov, N. S. Matveev, G. Doe and other painters. Folio-sized volume in a publisher’s portfolio-style cover of burgundy canvas, with rich embossed gold decoration — the Russian imperial coat of arms at the centre of a radiant golden sun, the motto ‘ЗА ВЪРУ ЦАРЯ и ОТЕЧЕСТВО’ in gold lettering, a mounted photographic portrait (the emperor on horseback, probably Alexander I) within a gilded cartouche, and the title ‘ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННАЯ ВОЙНА 1812 г. ВЪ КАРТИНАХЪ’; lower border decorated with medallions naming the key locations of the campaign (Moscow, Molodoy Yaroslavets, Smolensk, Selo Krasnoye, Berezina, Borodino), with the inscriptions ‘Moscow’ and ‘Published [...] Paris’.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
About the sale Russian Art – Mr G’s Collection – Part 3
Auction location
Auction time 09/18/2026 at 11:00 AM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like