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Auction: 22066 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs - Featuring the Robin Hunt Collection
Lot: 2046

Russia
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960)
c1920s Studio photograph of Grand Duchess Xenia and her children in exile at Wilderness House, England, signed "Swaine" in pencil to the lower right. Sister to Tsar Nicholas II, she and her family were rescued from the Crimea in 1919 aboard HMS Marlborough, despatched by King George V. Photographed with her daughter Princess Irina and sons Princes Theodore, Nikita, Andre, Dimitri. Seated - Rotislav, on the floor - Vassili. A portrait of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, Tsarina to Alexander III and mother of Grand Duchess Xenia, can be seen in the background (250x290mm)


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Estimate
£600 to £700

Starting price
£550