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ALEXANDER II. A GRANT OF INVESTITURE [GRAMOTA] in favour of General, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland Count Alexander Nikolayevitch Lüders (1790-1874), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Alexander’ and dated 30 May 1866
ALEXANDER II. A GRANT OF INVESTITURE [GRAMOTA] in favour of General, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland Count Alexander Nikolayevitch Lüders (1790-1874), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Alexander’ and dated 30 May 1866
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ALEXANDER II. A GRANT OF INVESTITURE [GRAMOTA] in favour of General, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland Count Alexander Nikolayevitch Lüders (1790-1874), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Alexander’ and dated 30 May 1866

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ALEXANDER II. A GRANT OF INVESTITURE [GRAMOTA] in favour of General, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland Count Alexander Nikolayevitch Lüders (1790-1874), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Alexander’ and dated 30 May 1866
Illuminated manuscript on paper, in Russian, 22 pages, 565 x 435 mm., the first page with the name and style of Emperor Alexander II (r. 1855-1881) in gold lettering, the border with coats-of-arms of towns, principalities and provinces amid Gothic architectural ornaments, the final page with the signature of Alexander II and date, with silk endpapers and guards, bound in the green velvet folder applied with the Imperial eagle in gilt-metal thread on the front and initial 'A II' on the reverse, within oak-leaf border (lacking seal), contained within a later wood case
23 x 18 1/8 in. (58.5 x 46 cm.)
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Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1950s.
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The manuscript relates the history of Alexander von Lüders (1790-1874) with the precise dates of his numerous deeds, achievements and subsequent rewards.

Count Alexander von Lüders was born to a German noble family that moved to Russia in the middle of the 18th century. He participated in the Napoleonic Wars and was wounded in the Battle of Kulm in 1813. During the Crimean War (1854-1856) he commanded the Army South operating in the middle Danube region. From November 1861 to June 1862 Count von Lüders held the position of Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland.

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