ALEXINSKAYA TATIANA IVANOVNA (1886-1968) Commemorative album belonging to Tatiana Aleksinskaya.

Lotto 455
6 0008 000
15.5 x 11 cm. Composed binding: covers of embroidered cloth, green paper spine. The flyleaves are pasted with «marbled» paper, a cardboard case pasted with marbled paper. Album was gifted by T. Aleksinskaya on January 25, 1940 by her colleagues of Baroness Vrevskaya Union of Russian Nurses of Charity of the Great War of 1914-1918, founder and chairman. This is evidenced by the entry at the very beginning of the album. The album was embroidered by «one Russian octogenarian known for her soulful qualities». The album includes numerous memorable souvenirs: business cards with inscripts of people from T. Aleksinskaya’s circle, figures of the Russian emigration and French subjects, children poems of her own composition and drawings of her son Grigory, inscript of her husband, G. Aleksinsky, a fragment of a postal envelope with a record of Lenin’s address in Paris, etc. Among others, the pages of the album are pasted congratulations and handwritten notes I. Bunin, A. Kuprin, L. Dobronravov, AV Lunacharsky, Metropolitan Evlogy, N. Yudenich and others. The text of a note by I. Bunin: «. Vera is lying (ill), otherwise she will not be able to be at an evening in Moscow. I have cleaned the house and am preparing dinner, I kiss your hands and ask you to hug for me, Grigory Aleksinski and shake hands with Grigosi. Your Iv. Bunin.» Tatiana Ivanovna Aleksinskaya (née Evtikhieva; 1886-1968) was a Russian public figure, historian, essayist and memoirist. Wife of the leader of the Social Democratic faction of the Second State Duma G.D. Aleksinski; headed the secretariat of the faction. From 1908, together with her husband she lived in Geneva; from 1914, she was the wife of the ultra-patriotic «Frunze» of the Second Duma. - From 1908, together with her husband, she lived in Geneva, and from 1914 took ultra-patriotic and «defense» positions. In 1918, she finally emigrated. In 1931, she founded in Paris the Baroness Vrevskaya Union of Russian Sisters of Charity of the Great War of 1914-1918. Gymnasium friend of Bunina.