The Jewel Album of Tsar Nicholas II and a Collection of Private Photographs of the Russian Imperial Family

by Alexander Von Solodkoff, Irina A. Bogatskaya

$175 · Offered by B Street Books

Ermitage London, 1997. Hardcover. From the slipcase: Between 1889 and 1913 Nicholas II, Grand Duke and Heir to the Throne, later Tsar of Russia, painted his jewellery in a small album as a record of his collection. His watercolours of more than 300 items -- some of which were created by Faberge or Cartier -- give a realistic picture of what the Tsar was wearing as jewellery. The album, re-discovered in the Archives of the Kremlin Museums in Moscow, is

• Binding: Hardcover

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