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1918réf. 39666Петроград Petrograd: Ð˜Ð·Ð´Ð°Ñ‚ÐµÐ»ÑŒÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¾ «Свободное Ð˜ÑÐºÑƒÑÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¾Â» Liberal Arts 1918. Limited First edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. 1/1000. Folio.157 1pp. Original printed dust-jacket over half green cloth and decorative paper covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. Lavishly illustrated with 101 duo-tone photographic reproductions mounted onto heavy paper this handsome volume documents the amazing true story of a wealthy family's contribution to the arts and architecture in a little town of northern Russia. Solvychegodsk is located on the north bank of the Vychegda River not far from its confluence with the Northern Dvina. Despite its sleepy appearance Solvychegodsk contains two of the most elaborate examples of religious architecture and applied arts in all Russia. Founded in the 14th century Solvychegodsk was called the Stroganov town due to the rich local salt works owned by the Stroganov family. The family created a salt monopoly which brought them enormous wealth and Solvychegodsk became the center of a private empire. The family's achievements placed them in positions of exceptional influence both political and cultural. The family's lavish patronage of the arts started with the patriarch of the dynasty Anika Ioanniky Stroganov 1497-1570 whose primary contribution to Russian architecture is the Annunciation Cathedral begun in 1560 and apparently concluded in the early 1570s. The Cathedral contains a grandiose gilded iconstasis which was carved in Moscow by a team led by Grigori Ivanov and transported here in 1693. The origins of the famed Stroganoff school of iconography and the decorative arts can be seen here in opulent examples of enamel painting and other applied arts on display in the cathedral. Another architectural jewel built by the Stroganov family is the Presentation Cathedral whose soaring interior is created by a vaulting system of paired arches that support the large structure and its five cupolas. The magnificent icons within the Presentation Cathedral were painted on canvas instead of treated boards in a western style by a Stroganov painter Stepan Narykov. The striking photographs depict in detail all these splendors exterior and interior views of all the brick churches as well as frescoes icons and other artwork including some which were later destroyed by the Soviets. Written before the Bolshevik Revolution and published in its immediate aftermath this book is the last remaining testimony of the town's architectural and artistic jewels. Indeed the Soviet period would inflict much damage on the cultural heritage of Solvychegodsk. Of the town's twelve brick churches at the beginning of the 20th century eight were destroyed and two others left in ruined state. However the two Stroganov cathedrals still stand in their monumental glory. One of 1000 numbered copies of which this is No. 887. Dust-jacket partly creased and torn along edges. Head of spine slightly age-toned. Minor soiling along edges of covers. Text in Russian. DJ in overall poor to fair binding in good interior in very good condition. Ð˜Ð·Ð´Ð°Ñ‚ÐµÐ»ÑŒÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¾ «Свободное Ð˜ÑÐºÑƒÑÑÑ‚Ð²Ð¾Â» (Liberal Arts) hardcover books

Romanov, Kirill VladimirovichABAA

A Broadside in Which Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich Proclaims Himself Guardian of the Sovereign’s Throne

1922réf. 001842Saint-Briac: By the author 1922. Softcover. First edition; 18 Â½â x 12 Â¼â ; newsprint single sheet recto only; folded with intersecting crease lines; a few small nicks and cuts to edges; light uniform age-toning; ruled with an intricate border and a stylized drawing of a crown; illustrated with two large photographs of Kirill and his wife Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – Feodorovna; very good condition. An apparently unrecorded piece of the Russian Imperial Family’s history the broadside was published by Kirill himself in France where he lived in exile after the October Revolution. Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov 1876 – 1938 was the son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich Romanov and the grandson of Tsar Alexander II. His wife whom he married in 1905 without Tsar Nicholas II’s consent was his first cousin and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. The marriage caused an uproarious scandal throughout the courts of the European nobility for the union was in open defiance of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ruling that first cousins could not marry and furthermore for the fact that Victoria Feodorovna had just divorced her first husband also a first cousin. During the February Revolution of 1917 Kirill swore allegiance to the Russian Provisional Government in hopes of ingratiating himself and possibly becoming a regent after Nicholas II’s impending abdication. Shortly after in June of 1917 the family escaped to Finland then Germany and finally to the tiny village of Saint-Briac in France. In 1922 four years after Nicholas II’s execution and two years before a London court order declared Nicholas’ brother Mikhail II legally dead Kirill published his current “declarationâ to his compatriots stating that he did not believe the news of Nicholas’ death and that he hoped his cousin would return to the throne but in the meantime the Russian people needed a “person in chargeâ to lead them. He continued on to state that until a definitive proof of the whereabouts of Mikhail Nicholas and his son Aleksei was presented or a Zemskii Sobor an assembly summoned by a tsar or a patriarch chose a new ruler he would appoint himself Guardian of the Sovereign’s Throne. His statement was endorced at the bottom of the broadside by his relative Prince Dmitrii Golitsyn-Muravlin. His aspirations were rivaled by Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov grandson of Nicholas I but with the former’s death in 1929 Kirill would indeed become the undisputed leader of the monarchists. After claiming the throne he would become known as the “Soviet Tsarâ for his sympathies for the regime and his biggest support would come from an émigré monarchist organization styling itself “The Legitimists.â After his death Kirill was succeeded by his son Vladimir Kirilovich who proclaimed himself “Head of the Romanovsâ but this was never accepted by any other member of the Romanov family. Saint-Briac: By the author paperback books

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