[CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR]. Album of 34 circular photographs of saints, mounted on card, each with manuscript captions, most with annotations on versos. Small 4to, morocco album, upper cover with title in Russian "From drawings by Prof. M.N. Vasil'ev for the Cathedral of the Savious in Moscow. N.V.D.", edges gilt.

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[CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE SAVIOUR]. Album of 34 circular photographs of saints, mounted on card, each with manuscript captions, most with annotations on versos. Small 4to, morocco album, upper cover with title in Russian "From drawings by Prof. M.N. Vasil'ev for the Cathedral of the Savious in Moscow. N.V.D.", edges gilt.

Lot Essay

Reproductions of drawings for the famous cathedral in Moscow that was raised on orders of Stalin, to make room for his Palace of Communism; never constructed the site is for the present an open-air swimming pool.

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