[NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 1894, Assassinated after the Revolution)]

Interesting Group of 8 unsigned Photographs, taken on manoeuvres, the first 4 show in turn Nicholas II, full length in uniform, shaking hands with one of a large group of officers; chatting with another officer, raised behind him is the Imperial Standard with the Russian Coat of Arms; pointing towards the valley below, slightly blurred in the very near foreground is a man on a stretcher being photographed; and the Tsar bending in order to look through a periscope. The other 4 show a gentle slope with troops massing to the left in the middle distance; troops making their way up a much steeper hill, (taken from above and quite near the leaders); the same troops a moment later, apparently having been ordered to go down again -- these two give a good idea of the grassy rolling terrain; and the last showing several soldiers, one giving his horse a drink, and two others mounted beside a small water barrel carriage, each 6¼-6½" x 9" except number 5 which is 4¾" x 8¾", no place, no date, circa

With the stamp on the versos of A[dolf] Otsup of St Petersburg. The photos may have been taken for Adolf by his son Pyotr (1883-1963), who as a young man covered the Russo-Japanese war, and was later a famous Soviet photographer.

Item Date:  1910

Stock No:  54359      £1500

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