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Leon Nikolayevich TOLSTOI (1828-1910), Count. The Cossacks 8th edition by T-vo I. N. Kouchnerev in Moscow, 1905. Stamp of the Iv. Iv. Mitiournikov bookstore in St. Petersburg. Publisher's cover. Format in-8°, 181 pages. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage 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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Leon Nikolayevich TOLSTOI (1828-1910), Count. The Cossacks 8th edition by T-vo I. N. Kouchnerev in Moscow, 1905. Stamp of the Iv. Iv. Mitiournikov bookstore in St. Petersburg. Publisher's cover. Format in-8°, 181 pages. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage 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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