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OL'GA NIKOLAEVNA ROMANOVA, Grand Duchess (1897-1918). Herbarium: album. [c.1912-1914].
The charming collection of flower specimens which belonged to the young Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, the elder daughter of the last Russian Tsar and Czarina, executed with the whole Imperial family in the night between 16 and 17 July 1918 in Ekaterinburg. The label on the front free end-paper indicates that this album used to be in the Children’s Suite (classroom of the eldest princesses; see Kilgour specimen ‘ff’) in the Aleksandrovskii Palace of Tsarskoe Selo, the permanent residence of the Imperial Family. A similar object, with the same, distinctive morocco cover design, also belonged to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, with manuscript notes in her own hand (described and illustrated in Sred' Shumnogo Bala (Moscow, 2001, p.55). See ‘Na Detskoi Polovine’. Detstvo v Tsarskom dome.... Moscow, Pinakoteka, 2000.
Album on paper, octavo (200x135mm). 98ff with specimens of pansies fixed on each leaf. Contemporary full brown morocco, gilt-stamped ornament to the upper side, all edges gild, lock with key on the vertical edge. Provenance: Ol’ga Nikolaevna Romanova (paper label on ffep identified as Kilgour ‘ff).
The charming collection of flower specimens which belonged to the young Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, the elder daughter of the last Russian Tsar and Czarina, executed with the whole Imperial family in the night between 16 and 17 July 1918 in Ekaterinburg. The label on the front free end-paper indicates that this album used to be in the Children’s Suite (classroom of the eldest princesses; see Kilgour specimen ‘ff’) in the Aleksandrovskii Palace of Tsarskoe Selo, the permanent residence of the Imperial Family. A similar object, with the same, distinctive morocco cover design, also belonged to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, with manuscript notes in her own hand (described and illustrated in Sred' Shumnogo Bala (Moscow, 2001, p.55). See ‘Na Detskoi Polovine’. Detstvo v Tsarskom dome.... Moscow, Pinakoteka, 2000.
Album on paper, octavo (200x135mm). 98ff with specimens of pansies fixed on each leaf. Contemporary full brown morocco, gilt-stamped ornament to the upper side, all edges gild, lock with key on the vertical edge. Provenance: Ol’ga Nikolaevna Romanova (paper label on ffep identified as Kilgour ‘ff).
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