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Lot 165

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"Photo album in the Bielowieza forest" [in cyrillic].

KARASIK, Zelman

€ 800 / 1.200

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1900

14 albumen prints, ca. 27 x 36,6 cm, mounted on cardboard, legends in Russian.

Kept in a brown oblong folio-size album, leather over wood, central decoration with embossed aurochs topped with a crown.

Historical album framing a royal hunting trip in the Bialowieza forest organised by Nicholas II of Russia, the last Emperor of Russia from the Romanov-dynasty, and his entourage. For centuries Bialowieza Forest served as a hunting ground for the Lithuanian and Polish kings. Between 1888 and 1917, the Russian tsars owned all of the primaeval forest, which became the royal hunting reserve. Their aim was to re-establish the protection of the bison. Nicholas II and his family visited Bialowieza a couple of times, among others in the summer of 1900 documented here. On the photographs: the palace and park complex complete with outbuildings and landscaped grounds built in the 1890s; Nicholas II, his family and entourage around a long table having lunch in the forest - most likely among the tsar's entourage: Prince Nicholai of Greece (with cigarette), Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, spouse of Prince Nicholas of Greece, and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), spouse of Nicholas II - ; the statue of a bison (in memory of the hunting trips of Tsar Alexander II); interior of the imperial palace, etc. The album is probably dedicated to Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872-1938), known as "Greeky Nicky" in the family to distinguish him from his paternal first cousin Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. Dedication on lower part of title to "НИКОЛАЮ ГЕОРГIЕВИЧУ" i.e. Nikolai Georgevitch, Nikolai son of Georg. Prince Nicholas' father was George I of Greece. The entire album in cyrillic. Photographer's name at the end: "Z.J. Karasik", from Grodno, a city in western Belarus, north of Bialowieza.

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Lot 165

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