Antique Imperial Russian Signed Letter Baroness Zeddeler Kschessinska Heirlooms

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Fine antique signed letter from the ballerina Baroness Julia Feliksovna Zeddeler nee Kshessinskaya (1866- circa 1969), she was the eldest sister of the famous ballerina Mathilde who had been a lover of Tsar Nicholas II in his youth and later married Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich. The letter is dated 9th January 1935 and is addressed to her nephew Slava Astafiev d. Julia and her husband Alexander fled St Petersburg for Kislovodsk in the early phase of the revolution and in this letter she laments the loss of family heirlooms stolen when their trunk was broken into. She fears the political climate in the Soviet Union as she has not heard from his father (her brother), who remained there with his third wife, they have terrible, crazy terror there...

Those scoundrels do not have a single drop of conscience or heart, they can shoot someone who is not guilty of anything. Joseph and his wife both died during the Siege of Leningrad. There is a translation in the final image. Size: 20.5 x 27 cm approx. Photos form part of the description.

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