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Description du sacre et du couronnement de Leurs Majestés Impériales L'Empereur de toutes les Russies Alexandre III et L'Impératrice Marie Féodorovna en l'année 1883. [St. Petersbourg]: Expédition pour la Confection des Papiers de l'Etat, 1883 [1885]. Elephant folio. Size of binding: 67,5×54 cm. Complete. Illustrated with 26 full-page cromolithographed plates, vignettes, head-pieces and tail-pieces by various artist incl. Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savinskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makarov, Bogdanov, Grigorew, Aleksandrovsky, Surikow and Samokish. Text printed in black, red and blue with initials. Index of plates and artists on final printed page. Bound in the orig. leather backed binding with gilt decorations and all edges gilt.

This important and rare, limited edition commemorative album was published in honour of the 1883 Coronation of Tsar Alexander III and Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna. Only 500 copies were printed, 300 in Russian and 200 in French, to be presented as gifts to members of the Imperial family, figures in the court and foreign guests attending the ceremony. Designed and published in Russia, the albums is profusely illustrated with 26 full-page chromolithographed plates depicting key events and notable public figures, along with in text fine illustrations, vignettes, and decorations. The album has never been offered for sale.

Scarce.

Reference: R. S. Wortman: Scenarios of Power: Myth and ceremony in Russia monarchy, vol. 2, Princeton University Press 1995, p.196–234.

Provenance: A Danish descendant of a participant at the coronation of Tsar Alexander III and Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna.

Condition

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Additional Remarks

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Auction

Russian art & icons, 9 June 2017

Category

Books & manuscripts

Estimate

200,000–250,000 DKK

Price realised

Not sold