ALEXANDER BORISOVICH KURAKIN (1752-1818), PRINCE Autograph certificate issued to Theodore Pepin, who had served in the prince’s household for eleven months.Paris, November 24, 1809.

Lot 31

600800

1 bifolium, folio. With Prince Kurakin’s red wax seal bearing his coat of arms and his signature in Russian. Text in French. Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin (1752–1818) was a prominent Russian diplomat, Vice-Chancellor of the Russian Empire (1796–1802), President of the College of Foreign Affairs, Chancellor of the Russian Orders, and served as Russian ambassador to Austria (1806–1808) and to France (1808–1812).

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