MENU FOR THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA [NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 1894, Assassinated after the Revolution) & ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA  (1872-1918, the Tsarina)]

Printed Dinner Menu by Earnest Lipgart, for the night before their Coronation in French, including “Potage Tortue clair... Bouchées aux Crevettes-Canelons... Jeunes Poulets truffés à la Périgord, Soufflé froid de foie gras...”, with a large coloured illustration of a Coronation Coach with horses and soldiers, 14” x 10”, no place, 25th May

Ernst Friedrich von LIPHART (1847-1932) was a painter, a noted art expert and art collector from what is now Tartu in Estonia. After living for a time in Florence, he moved to France and then to Russia, where he was a curator at the Hermitage Museum. In 1886 Liphart moved to Saint Petersburg, where he was a successful artist, painting a portrait of Tsar Nicholas II, as well as decorating the curtain and ceiling of the theatre of the Moika Palace and several imperial palaces. Liphart also took on more unusual requests, including the menu for the Tsar's coronation in 1896 and then painting 100 figures on a piano, telling the story of Orpheus. The piano was a present from the Tsar to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

Item Date:  1896

Stock No:  42823      £575

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