Description du Sacre et du Couronnement
de leurs Majestés Impériales l'Empereur de Toutes les Russies Alexandre III et l'Imperatrice Marie Feodorovna en l'année 1883.
St Petersburg, A. Ilin for the Expedition pour la confection des papiers d'Etat, 1883
The beautiful chromo-lithographed plates and illustrations, some heightened with gold, illustrate the ceremonies and events in Moscow and were drawn by the best artists of the time, including Vereshchagin and Samokish. This commemorative monument was printed only for the Imperial family and foreign dignitaries participating in the celebrations on 15 May 1883: it was never offered for public sale and is accordingly rare.
First edition; large folio (66 x 51 cm); 27 chromolithographs, including title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromo-lithograph, text printed in black, blue and red (occasional spotting, some offsetting from plates onto the text, adhesion to text from two plates); o
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