LIPRANDI IVAN PETROVICH (1790-1880) Sbornik, posvyashchennyi russkomu polkovodtsu Barklayu-de-Tolly’. [A collection dedicated to the Russian commander Barclay de Tolly.] Manuscript.1860s.

Lot 92

3 5004 000

22 folio pages, bound in a notebook. In Russian. Contains excerpts from works by A.S. Pushkin, M. Bogdanovich, A.I. Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky, O.A. Pozdeev, A.P. Ermolov, M.L. Kutuzov, I.T. Radozhitsky, and others, as well as author’s comments and memoirs. The notebook is unsigned, but a footnote on the tenth page identifies I.P. Liprandi as the compiler of the manuscript. Ivan Petrovich Liprandi (1790–1880) was a Russian military and government official, military historian, and Major General in the Imperial Russian Army. He was also involved in secret police activities and is known for his memoirs of Pushkin. He participated in the Napoleonic Wars and was quartermaster general of D.S. Dokhturov’s corps during the Patriotic War. PROVENANCE: Archive of the Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn family.

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