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LUDWIG VIKTOR, Archduke of Austria (1842-1919). Presentation Album of Photographs commemorating his 25th Anniversary as Commander of the 39th Infantry Tomsk Regiment. [St. Petersburg: 1898.]
2° (445 x 335mm), 12 mounted photographs, 7 of compositions of officers and buildings, 5 of regimental exercises. Original blue morocco, the upper cover applied with a pale brown morocco panel with gilt metal mounts titled '39 Infantry Tomsk Regiment to its Chief 1873-1898', the upper left with the roman numeral XXV within oak and acorn wreath and garland engraved with dates, lower right with the archduke's crowned initials with crossed swords and the dated '22/V', metal clasp, with oyster moiré silk doublures, gilt edges. (Minor wear and discolouration.) Provenance: Ludwig Viktor, Archduke of Austria (binding, bookplate) -- Phillips New York, 1985, lot 115.
The regiment was formed in 1796, and took part in the campaign in the Caucasus in 1828-29, in the Crimea in 1853-55, and against Turkey in 1873. A history of the regiment by M. Dmitriev was published on its centenary in 1896. Archduke Ludwig Viktor was the youngest son of Archduke Franz Karl and his wife Sophie, née Princess of Bavaria, and younger brother of Karl Joseph I of Austria and Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. A pampered child, he persued a military career, was uninterested in politics, but, for his open homosexuality and transvestism, was forbidden to remain in Vienna by Franz Joseph. He retired to Klessheim Palace near Salzburg.
2° (445 x 335mm), 12 mounted photographs, 7 of compositions of officers and buildings, 5 of regimental exercises. Original blue morocco, the upper cover applied with a pale brown morocco panel with gilt metal mounts titled '39 Infantry Tomsk Regiment to its Chief 1873-1898', the upper left with the roman numeral XXV within oak and acorn wreath and garland engraved with dates, lower right with the archduke's crowned initials with crossed swords and the dated '22/V', metal clasp, with oyster moiré silk doublures, gilt edges. (Minor wear and discolouration.) Provenance: Ludwig Viktor, Archduke of Austria (binding, bookplate) -- Phillips New York, 1985, lot 115.
The regiment was formed in 1796, and took part in the campaign in the Caucasus in 1828-29, in the Crimea in 1853-55, and against Turkey in 1873. A history of the regiment by M. Dmitriev was published on its centenary in 1896. Archduke Ludwig Viktor was the youngest son of Archduke Franz Karl and his wife Sophie, née Princess of Bavaria, and younger brother of Karl Joseph I of Austria and Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. A pampered child, he persued a military career, was uninterested in politics, but, for his open homosexuality and transvestism, was forbidden to remain in Vienna by Franz Joseph. He retired to Klessheim Palace near Salzburg.
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