Lot n° 14
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Prince Nicolas ORLOFF (Saint Petersburg 1827 - Samois-sur-Se - Lot 14
Prince Nicolas ORLOFF (Saint Petersburg 1827 - Samois-sur-Seine 1885). Godson of Czar NICOLAS I, officer in the horse guards, he was ambassador to London and Paris.
- L.a.s. "Pce Orloff" Château de Bellefontaine August 1/13, 1882, 4 pp. in-8, with his crowned N.O. numeral, envelope also franked with his numeral. Moving letter to the historian in which he talks about his mother, Princess Olga Alex. ORLOVA, who was no more: "... Her passing to a better world leaves me with an immense void on this earth ... the princess had preserved her love of learning and an incomparable serenity of soul ...".
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