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4º apaisado, tapa dura en tela editorial estampada, conserva sobrecubierta con pequeños desperfectos, pequeña nota escrita en guarda delantera por anterior propietario, muy ilustrado a todo color, texto en inglés, 119 páginas.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [vi], 230 pp. ; 26 cm ; pictorial photographic boards, no dustjacket ; ".follows the brief life-journey of Prince Oleg Konstantinovich, one of the lesser-known members of the powerful and privileged Russian Imperial family. He was a talented young man of intellectual and artistic genius. Oleg was the gifted son of the talented Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, who wrote under the pseudonym of KR. The Grand Duke was a friend of Tchaikovsky, who set his numerous poems to music, and who established literary circles for his troops, translated Hamlet into Russian and wrote The King of the Jews, an original play that he and his sons performed. .[F]ollow.as his life takes him via the luxutirs of the family's four magnificent palaces of Pavlovsk, in Tsalrskoyue Selo, the marble palace in St. Petersburg, the Konstantine Palace at Strelna, and the Ostashevo Estate near Moscow, as well as numerous holidays in the Crimea. The young prince enjoyed the most liberal program in literary, scientific and artistic education. He was the first romanov to be enrolled in a civilian school and graduated from the Imperial Lyceum in St Petersburg, where in 1913 he won the Pushkin Medal for his academic achievements. At the age of 21, Prince Oleg Konstantinovich was on the crest of a brilliant career a d personal greatness when World War I began. Then tragedy struck." ; SIGNED by Arturo E. Beéche on the title page ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 368 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.