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249. A group of accounts relating to the Choigny estate and …
249
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249. A group of accounts relating to the Choigny estate and …
Estimate €8,000 - €10,000
Voluntary lot
Description
249. A group of accounts relating to the Choigny estate and its sale
Financial, legal and estate records relating to Château de Choigny, the residence of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna following their departure from Italy in the early 1920s. Dating principally from the late 1920s, the material concerns the administration and financial affairs of the estate, together with its proposed sale, and includes accounts, correspondence and documentation relating to negotiations, legal arrangements and practical matters surrounding the disposal of the property. The group provides a revealing record of the financial circumstances and domestic affairs of the Imperial family during their years of exile in France.
Provenance
Private Collection, France
After leaving Italy in the early 1920s, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich and his wife, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, settled at the Château de Choigny, a modest estate near the village of Santeny, about twenty miles southeast of Paris. Living under the protection of the French authorities and attended by a small group of faithful Cossack retainers, the couple spent their remaining years in relative seclusion. By the late 1920s, consideration was being given to the possible sale of the estate, and the surviving correspondence documents the negotiations, legal matters, and practical arrangements associated with this process, reflecting both the family's financial circumstances and the realities of life in exile.
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