Name: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Brand: An imposing portrait photograph. 1901
Price: 4500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)
An imposing portrait photograph. 1901
Large-format portrait photograph signed ('Lev Tolstoy') and inscribed to Nina (Antonina) Alexandrovna Fride, n.p., 16 March 1901.

The image by Scherer, Nabholz & Co., Moscow, 202 x 134mm, mount 352 x 256mm. Inscribed in Russian on the lower margin. Provenance: Christie’s, 24 June 1992, lot 206 (part).

An imposing portrait photograph. Nina (Antonina) Fride (1859-1942) was an opera singer: she was a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1884, and in 1890 sang at the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades.

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