ARSEN'EVA, S. D. Tsarstvuiushchii dom Romanovykh. Vyp. VII. Imperator Nikolai I. [The Imperial House of Romanov. Part VII. Tsar Nicholas I.] St. Petersburg: at the Synod Press, 1910.
ARSEN'EVA, S. D. Tsarstvuiushchii dom Romanovykh. Vyp. VII. Imperator Nikolai I. [The Imperial House of Romanov. Part VII. Tsar Nicholas I.] St. Petersburg: at the Synod Press, 1910.

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ARSEN'EVA, S. D. Tsarstvuiushchii dom Romanovykh. Vyp. VII. Imperator Nikolai I. [The Imperial House of Romanov. Part VII. Tsar Nicholas I.] St. Petersburg: at the Synod Press, 1910.

8° (221 x 148mm). Portrait frontispiece of Maria Feodorovna, 15 plates. (Light marginal soiling.) Contemporary leather-backed illustrated paper-covered boards (corners worn, short split at spine foot, edges rubbed). Provenance: Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia (1847-1928; presentation inscription to:) -- Tatiana Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess (1897-1918; manuscript label of the classroom of the older Princesses at Alexander Palace n.598) -- Plaza Book Auction, New York (sold 12-13 April 1934, lot 219).

FIRST EDITION. THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY EMPRESS CONSORT MARIA FEODOROVNA TO HER GRANDDAUGHTER TATIANA NIKOLAEVNA, in Russian: 'Tatiana from Grandma. Thursday, 1st April 1910. Tsarskoe Selo'. The work opens with a portrait frontispiece of the Dowager Empress, and a printed dedication to her from the author.

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