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Sergei Nikolayevich TROINITSKY (1882-1948) Catalogue of fans in the 18th-century Hermitage, published by Brokhaus-Efron in Petrograd in 1923. Format in-4°, 33 pages and 11 illustrations on sheet. Very good condition. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, Hermitage researcher and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.
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Sergei Nikolayevich TROINITSKY (1882-1948) Catalogue of fans in the 18th-century Hermitage, published by Brokhaus-Efron in Petrograd in 1923. Format in-4°, 33 pages and 11 illustrations on sheet. Very good condition. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, Hermitage researcher and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.
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