Photographic archive of a jet-setting White Russian lothario

by Michael Evlanoff, Photographer, Elizabeth Arden

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Various Places : No Publisher , 1920-1960. A large and in-depth collection of approximately 3,500 original photos from a post-revolutionary Russian exile prince of aristocratic bearing and aspirations but not pedigree, Michael Evlanoff. He gained notoriety for his marriage to cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden in 1942. It would end two years later after he had connived tremendous sums from her and her private detective

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