{"product_id":"antique-imperial-russian-signed-letter-grand-duchess-olga-romanov-gatchina-1","title":"Antique Imperial Russian Signed Letter Grand Duchess Olga Romanov Gatchina","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"\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-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;\"\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\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#333333\"\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFine antique signed letter from Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960), dated Klamperberg 21 April\/ 3 May 1929 \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eaddressed to her beloved former tutor Ferdinand Thormeyer (1858\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#333333\"\u003e\u003cfont\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003e-1944), known as Siocha, discussing her routines and the preparation for Easter, how much her sons loved Siocha from his visit and him teaching them, their parrot, sorting out the new home, collecting things from her father Tsar Alexander III small cottage in Fredensborg, it is accompanied by its original envelope.\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cfont color=\"#333333\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWell, good morning, my dear Siocha!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eFor two days now I have written so much and have had the envelope ready, but I cannot find the time to talk to you…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eWe miss you very much. The children speak about you and love you—I was quite certain that they would, and had predicted that they would love you!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eNo, that doctor has still not come, and I am already beginning to doubt whether he ever will.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eThis week is rather hard: going backwards and forwards to church twice every day; a walk from six until seven in the morning; and then a great deal of writing to do—Easter presents. Then there is that very kind Sister Maslenikoff, who comes to us every day. You understand that when somebody is in the house, one cannot write or do many of the things one otherwise might.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eRygaard is becoming fuller and increasingly attractive. We were there this morning. At last the man who was searching for water has completed his work: the water is there, and the man has gone away with all his machinery. So that is one task completed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eThe upstairs rooms are drying out and should be habitable in two or three days. The heating is on and it no longer smells.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eThe dear little “parrot,” greatly excited, runs from one end of the garden to the other and continues talking inexhaustibly: “I salute you!” The two larger [birds—word unclear] are very large too. There are also newborn pigeons in the sitting room…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eWe went to Fredensborg and brought back some things from Papa’s little villa to Rygaard. We have put them in my husband’s study. That is where we shall sleep for the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003e[The Easter observance] will be this coming Saturday morning. You will be able to think about and imagine all of it—provided it does not rain!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eThey write from Berlin that it is warm there. It is not at all warm here yet—just as it was during your visit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eTikhon reads aloud to Guri while Guri draws. He does it exactly like the soldier, to entertain us, and afterwards [Guri draws] a few flowers from nature. Not at all bad…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eYesterday Tikhon said to us:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003e“When shall we begin our lessons again? I have had enough of holidays!”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eHow do you like that? I have never met children like mine—they are always full of surprises!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eThank you, dear Siocha, for your dear letter after your return. I am delighted to know that you were not tired. How I hate travelling!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eMr Arcadie has returned from Berlin. Something dreadful happened there on the first of May. Here everything was peaceful, although the workmen—apart from ours—did not work at Rygaard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eHow happy I shall be when we have finished our move! What joy it will be finally to see the trees in leaf and to settle in. That beautiful little corner is filled with memories of former days—it is so pretty and reminds me of Gatchina!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eToday is Good Friday. The service begins at two o’clock, and then there is another in the evening at six. I shall remain in town so that I may visit several sick people between the two services.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eHaving made twenty-five cards—each painted with a spring flower—I am now resting from that work. I have so many little things to distribute: flowers for one person, something for another, and so forth. There is never enough time to do everything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eMadame Möller [is making or embroidering something—possibly a Russian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT; font-style: italic; outline: medium !important;\"\u003esarafan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003e] in her villa, and their chauffeur has beaten their [carpets]. Then tomorrow there is our house—the windows are to be attended to!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eShe and her husband are charming. I have also given her a charming little tea table to thank her for all her kindness. Unfortunately, we may never again be as comfortable as we have been here, in the little house which she placed at our disposal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eDear Siocha, I am writing abominably badly this morning—I cannot find my pen. I embrace you. I never cease thinking about you, and I imagine the joy of seeing you here again at Rygaard next year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eMay God protect you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eYours with all my heart,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 20px;\"\u003eOlga\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: New; font-size-adjust: none; outline: medium !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"outline: medium !important;\"\u003eOur ladies were touched by your beautiful farewells. 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