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436 pp. Text in Russian, translated from the French. With tipped-in portrait plates; decorative borders throughout. 26x19 cm. (10¼x7½"), later half cloth & boards, spine lettered in gilt.

Rare biographical work on the lives of Russian Tsarinas. Polish historian Kazimierz Waliszewski (1849-1935) devoted more than thirty yeares to studying Russian history. He worked in archives of Paris and London, Berlin and Vienna, as well as St.Petersburg, where he used patronage of Grand duke Nikolay Mihajlovicha. His last book, devoted to Alexander I, was published in Paris in 1925.He died in 1935 in Paris.