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ALEXANDER III -- A collection of 32 albumen prints (170-230 x 225-300mm), scenes from the Russo-Turkish war, mounted on card, all with autograph captions in Russian in the hand of Alexander III as Grand Duke, many with the imprint of Franz Duschek, Court Photographer to King Carol I of Romania, numbered on the reverse '2, 5-16, 25-31, 34, 37-38, 41-42, 45-47, 51-52, 61, 66' in pencil, some with earlier numbering in blue crayon. (Traces of gum to the reverses.)
ALEXANDER III -- A collection of 32 albumen prints (170-230 x 225-300mm), scenes from the Russo-Turkish war, mounted on card, all with autograph captions in Russian in the hand of Alexander III as Grand Duke, many with the imprint of Franz Duschek, Court Photographer to King Carol I of Romania, numbered on the reverse '2, 5-16, 25-31, 34, 37-38, 41-42, 45-47, 51-52, 61, 66' in pencil, some with earlier numbering in blue crayon. (Traces of gum to the reverses.) A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER III AS GRAND DUKE, an interesting collection of views, the first inscribed 'General Rikhter building a bridge across the Danube with Aide-de-Camp Shmidt and with officers of Pontoon Builders. Sistov 1877', others showing his and his father's suite, 'Me with all my suite at Obirmenik 26 July 1877', members of the Life Guards 1st Ataman Division, locations including 'Papa's house in Gornyi Studen in Bulgaria in 1877', 'Papa's convoy from squadrons of the Life Guards Hussar and Uhlan regiments' with the Emperor and Grand Duke Pavel, another 'Prince Cherkaskii with his staff', 'The Commander in Chief with his staff', a portrait of Prince Peter Wittgenstein, Count Miloradovich, Baron Rozen, regimental bands at Brestovets, Bulgaria, the last 'The house of Major-Gen. Rodionov, commander of the 2nd Don Cossack Division with his sons and a Bulgarian family, Brestovets, 1878'. (32)