Description
Rare wooden frame containing the shoulder tabs and buttonholes of the commander of the 16th Irkutsk Hussar Regiment, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia (1856-1929). With engraved brass plate in Russian relating the provenance. Russia, circa 1910. Frame : 29 x 24,5 cm Legs : L. 16 cm Buttonholes : L. 11 cm Provenance - Grand Duke Nikolaï Nikolaevich Romanov (1856-1929), grandson of Tsar Nicolas I and supreme chief of the Russian Imperial Armies. - Count Feodor Maximillianovich Nirode (1871-1952), Russian major-general - preserved in his descendants. History Theodore (Feodor) Nirode, major-general, was appointed in 1906 aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief of the Guards and the Military District of St. Petersburg. Between 1907 and 1911 he served as aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaevich of Russia, and in 1911-1912 he commanded the 16th Irkutsk Hussar Regiment, succeeding Grand Duke Nicholas, and then also the Guard Dragoons.
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Rare wooden frame containing the shoulder tabs and buttonholes of the commander of the 16th Irkutsk Hussar Regiment, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia (1856-1929). With engraved brass plate in Russian relating the provenance. Russia, circa 1910. Frame : 29 x 24,5 cm Legs : L. 16 cm Buttonholes : L. 11 cm Provenance - Grand Duke Nikolaï Nikolaevich Romanov (1856-1929), grandson of Tsar Nicolas I and supreme chief of the Russian Imperial Armies. - Count Feodor Maximillianovich Nirode (1871-1952), Russian major-general - preserved in his descendants. History Theodore (Feodor) Nirode, major-general, was appointed in 1906 aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief of the Guards and the Military District of St. Petersburg. Between 1907 and 1911 he served as aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaevich of Russia, and in 1911-1912 he commanded the 16th Irkutsk Hussar Regiment, succeeding Grand Duke Nicholas, and then also the Guard Dragoons.
