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121 - [RUSSIA – THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS II].
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[RUSSIA – THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS II]. KRIVENKO (V. S.), ed. THE CEREMONIES OF THE HOLY CORONATION. Published with the authorisation of His Majesty the Emperor by the Ministry of the Imperial Household. French translation by M. G. Korsow. St Petersburg, State Printing Office, 1899. Large folio, in the publisher’s ivory shagreen, ivory vellum spine, bevelled covers illustrated in colour and gold, front cover adorned with the double-headed imperial eagle within a floral design by Nicolas Samokich, gilt edges, endpapers printed in silver and gold with the cipher of Nicholas II. THE METAL MEDALLION bearing the portraits of the sovereigns, originally set in the circular recess on the front cover, IS MISSING. A few foxing spots at the margins of the covers, scuffing at the edges, one section loose, a few foxing spots within the text block, particularly on the scrolls. FIRST FRENCH EDITION of this official album dedicated to the coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in Moscow on 14 May 1896. Born Nikolai Aleksandrovich ROMANOV, Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia. The book traces the coronations of Russian sovereigns and the ceremonies and festivities of the last imperial coronation. Richly illustrated in black and white and colour: portraits, views, scenes from the ceremonies, and reproductions of programmes and menus, featuring works by Benois, Repin, Makovsky, Serov and Vasnetsov. Title printed in red and black, colour-illustrated title page, with decorative ornaments and borders. ENCLOSED: PROGRAMME OF THE GALA PERFORMANCE AT THE GRAND IMPERIAL THEATRE IN MOSCOW ON 17 MAY 1896, HELD ON THE OCCASION OF THE CORONATION OF HIS MAJESTY EMPEROR NICHOLAS ALEXANDROVICH AND HER MAJESTY EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA. Moscow, Printing Works of the Imperial Theatres of Moscow, A. A. Levenson Printing Company, [1896]. Booklet (12) ff. bound in a large quarto slipcase in the publisher’s cream-coloured cardboard, with a polychrome imperial eagle in the centre of the front cover within a cold-embossed border, endpapers decorated in blue and gold with the crowned imperial cipher, tricolour ribbon. Stains, some of which are noticeable, but marginal. FRENCH VERSION of this LUXURIOUS PROGRAMME for the gala organised to mark the coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, featuring the first act of the opera ‘A Life for the Tsar’, with music by Mikhail Glinka and libretto by Baron Rosen, and the ballet ‘The Pearl’ by Marius Petipa, with music by Riccardo Drigo. CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC illustration, featuring full-page compositions, ornamental borders and gilded highlights, notably based on works by Andrei Ryabushkin and Elena Samokich-Sudkovskaya.
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