ANONYMOUS, possibly ALEKSANDR VASIL'EVICH VERESHCHAGIN

'Vidy Mugdena i Pekina 1902' [Views of Muckden and Peking]

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ANONYMOUS, possibly ALEKSANDR VASIL'EVICH VERESHCHAGIN
'Vidy Mugdena i Pekina 1902' [Views of Muckden and Peking]
Album of fifty-three gelatin silver prints, each approx. 4 x 6 in., titled in ink on mounts, front free endpaper signed in pencil A. Kuropatkin, titled in gilt with credit Compiled by A. V. Vereshchagin, red morocco, titled in gilt on front cover, titled, dated and stamped A. V. Vereshchagin in gilt on spine, oblong, sm. 8vo.

Provenance

Formerly the property of Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin (1848-1925), General of the Infantry, Minister of War from 1898 and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces in the Far East during the Russo-Japanese War. The album was left in Kuropatkin's summer house 30km north of St. Petersburg in an area which reverted to Finland after their War of Liberation in 1918. It then became the property of a Finnish Company Commander and is offered for sale by his son.

Lot Essay

In addition to the views of the title, the album includes portraits of English, German and Japanese legations and everyday street scenes.

The compiler of the album, Vereshchagin, was a Colonel and later Lieutenant-General in the army and wrote memoirs of the military campaign against the Boxers.

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