RUSSKAYA LETOPIS’ [RUSSIAN CHRONICLE] [COMPLETE SET] Paris: Russkiy Ochag, 1921-1925. Vols. 1-7.

Vol. 1. 1921. 206, [2] pp.: ill.; 11 plates; Vol. 2. 1922. [4], 184, [2] pp.: ill.; 4 plates; Vol. 3. 1922. 220, [2] pp.: ill.; 5 plates; Vol. 4. 1922. 248 pp.; 4 plates; Vol. 5. 1923. 292 pp.; 3 plates; Vol. 6. 1924. 221, [2] pp.; 3 plates; Vol. 7. 1925. VIII, 251, [2] pp.; 5 plates; 26.5 x 18 cm. All issues (except vol. 2) in the publisher’s wrappers. Spine repaired with paper (vol. 1), tears and losses to the wrapper and spine (vol. 3), front wrapper missing, text block splitting into separate parts (vol. 2), most of the spine missing, text block splitting into several parts (vol. 4), ownership stamps, worn edges of pages. Ownership inscription ‘Count Schulenburg’ on the wrappers of vols. 3, 4 and 5, with numerous pencil annotations by the owner in the margins of the same volumes. The publication covers the historical events of the early 20th century through the eyes of eyewitnesses and participants: the life of the Imperial family, the Civil War and the Revolution. It tells of the collapse of the Russian state, the terrible suffering of the Russian people in the first years after the Revolution and the ‘manifestations of unprecedented madness, treachery and villainy of the rulers in the years of the Russian Time of Troubles’. Among the authors: P. Gilliard (on the Imperial family), P. Krasnov, V.M. Rudnev, V.I. Gurko, V. Petrushevsky, Baroness Wrangel, P.S. Botkina and others. Provenance: Count Vladimir Eduardovich von Schulenburg (1870 - ?), Colonel, officer of the Life Guards Uhlan Regiment, head of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Home for Crippled Soldiers and of the hospital train named after the Heir Alexei Nikolaevich. In exile in Switzerland. Member of the Monarchist Association and a propagandist in the entourage of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich. A member of the society in memory of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, he published a book of recollections of her. In 1926-1928 he lived in Nice. Very rare as a complete set.