{"product_id":"antique-imperial-russian-photo-tsar-alexander-iii-romanov-coronation-moscow-1883","title":"Antique Imperial Russian Photo Tsar Alexander III Romanov Coronation Moscow 1883","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"c0\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;\"\u003eBibelotslondon Ltd is a UK registered company based in London Bridge dealing in ephemera and curiosities from Britain and around the world. Our diverse inventory is carefully chosen and constantly evolving. We work very hard to offer the highest quality works at competitive prices. Our inventory is listed online, and we strive to keep our website completely up to date, so our customers can easily check availability. We believe in offering clients items that are unique and rare for aficionados of the antique and collector's world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003eBibelot is a late nineteenth century word derived from the French word bel ‘beautiful’, meaning a small item of beauty, curiosity or interest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c0\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThe word ephemera is derived from the sixteenth century Greek word ephmera meaning a printed or hand written paper not meant to be retained for a long period of time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c0\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\"\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003eFine and monumental antique pair of imperial Russian albumen photographs, entitled in Russian, 'Moscow during the Holy Coronation of His Imperial Highness'. Mounted \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003eonto stiff card it formed part of series of \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\u003ephotographs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e detailing the Coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in Moscow in 1883. This particular photo by the celebrated nineteenth century Russian photographer Ivan Mechkovsky is of the procession of Tsar Alexander's cortege into the Kremlin Gate past St Basil's Cathedral on 27th May 1883. Note the scaffolding on the Cathedral; p\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003ereservationist societies monitored the state of the church and called for a proper restoration throughout the 1880s and 1890s,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e but it was regularly delayed for lack of funds. The church did not have a congregation of its own and could only rely on donations raised through public campaigning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cfont color=\"#202122\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: large; font-family: Arial;\"\u003ePhotos form part of the description.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\u003eSize: 58.5 x 46.5 cm approx\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family: Arial; 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