Russian Tsar Nicholas II Romanov Postcard from 1902

Russian Tsar Nicholas II Vintage Postcard from 1902 Romanov

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Silver bromine portrait postcard of Russian Tsar Nicholas II. Unused postcard with a line at front side: St. Die, 24 Sept. 1902. CA Good condition.

Nicholas II (Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, tr. Nikolai II, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov ) (1868 – 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was by the Grace of God, Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.

Like other Russian Emperors he is commonly known by the monarchical title Tsar (though Russia formally ended the Tsardom in 1721). He is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church and has been referred to as Saint Nicholas the Martyr. Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg.

In the spring of 1918, Nicholas was handed over to the local Ural Soviet by commissar Vasily Yakovlev who was given a written receipt. Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, his son, Alexei Nikolaevich, his four daughters, Olga Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna, the family's medical doctor, Evgeny Botkin, the Emperor's footman, Alexei Trupp, the Empress' maidservant, Anna Demidova, and the family's cook, Ivan Kharitonov, were executed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16/17 July 1918.

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Ruggiero Raimondi Autograph CoA

 

Ruggiero Raimondi b/w portrait photo with authentic signature in lower part of the photograph.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

8 x 14 cm, good condition.

Ruggero Raimondi (born 1941) is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures. Some of his most important roles have been King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlos; Fiesco; the title roles in Boris Godunov (including the Andrzej Żuławski film) and Attila; Silva; Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen (including the Francesco Rosi film, 1984, with Plácido Domingo and Julia Migenes); the title role in Don Giovanni (including the Joseph Losey film, 1979); Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte; the title role in Don Quichotte by Massenet; and Scarpia in a recording of Tosca produced by Ardermann and later filmed live from Rome, with Plácido Domingo and Catherine Malfitano, conducted by Zubin Mehta.

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