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Fine antique signed letter from Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882-1960), dated 6th March/21st February 1925, addressed to her beloved former tutor Ferdinand Thormeyer (1858-1944), known as Siocha, written at a time when the Soviet Union wanted to reclaim all the old imperial properties held abroad, including the churches - a way of infiltrating the emigre community and suppressing any counter revolutionary action.
Antique Imperial Russian Signed Letter Grand Duchess Olga Romanov Soviet Church
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The letter is an interesting one thanking him for the stamps which he sent her especially the Swiss ones before giving an account of how people are now trading with the Soviets and that even "Yashka was one of them, from the old imperial embassy", discussing the embassy house in Constantinople and that the Soviets had demanded the return of the church in Denmark. "There was no house attached to the old embassy - the ambassadors had a diplomatic residence, but there was really nothing to take except the church - which, even we don't understand very well...and so it has become only about commerce". She goes on "The church - that is, our side - was defeated in the Landrat...we submitted a petition...some still believe that something might happen, that our Church might remain...they allow one utterly abject man to do everything possible to seize the church and give it to that priest who openly says he doesn't believe in God. Why? The. more one thinks about it, the less sense it makes. Thats the wool of this affair - the whole tangle." She ends with "What's blooming in the garden now? Snowdrops? I have had a cold all week. I am sniffling every day."
Size: 14.5 x 21.5 cm approx
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Sub-Type: Royalty
Type: Historical
Signed: Yes
Object: Signed Letters
Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation