MARIA PAVLOVNA (1786-1859, daughter of Tsar Paul I, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach)

Letter signed 'Marie GD de Russie et de Saxe', to Madame de Miatlew, in French with translation, thanking her for "the constancy of your remembrance for me ... at each year's renewal" and for sending "the court almanac ... My health is satisfactory, thank God, in spite of the new vexations it has pleased Providence to inflict on my family and me, and in spite of the rigours of winter", with the assurance of her good wishes in return, 1 side 4to, Weimar, 31 January (Russian calendar) 12 February (Western calendar)

Maria married Karl Friedrich, (1783-1853), from 1828 Grand Duke, in 1804. Mme de Miatlev may be the widow of the poet and courtier Ivan Petrovich, (1796-1844).

Item Date:  1845

Stock No:  17782      £250

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