MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH (1861-1929), Grand Duke ‘Vysochaishe utverzhdyonnyy poryadok torgestvennogo torzhestva 100-letiya Borodinskogo srazheniya 26 avgusta 1912 goda v derevne Borodino; Vysochaishe utverzhdyonnyy poryadok shestviya iz Uspenskogo sobora na Krasnuyu ploshchad 30 avgusta 1912 goda, v den’ prazdnovaniya 100-letiya Otechestvennoy voyny v Moskve.’ [The highest approved order for the solemn celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino on 26 August 1912 in the village of Borodino; Highly approved order of the procession from the Assumption Cathedral to Red Square on 30 August 1912, on the day of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War in Moscow.] [St. Petersburg]; tip. Trenke and Fysno, [1912].

14, 5 p.; 32x20 cm. Red full leather binding of the period, gold embossed coat of arms of the Russian Empire on the upper cover, ornamental frame along the edge, endpapers made of moiré-imitation paper. On the first flyleaf, a gold-embossed coat of arms of the Russian Empire. PROVENANCE: Library of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich (1861-1929), second son of Mikhail Nikolaevich and Olga Fedorovna, grandson of Nicholas I. In 1891, he entered into a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie von Merenberg, granddaughter of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. For this, Russian Emperor Alexander III stripped him of his military ranks and exiled the couple from the Russian Empire. From 1910, he lived in Great Britain, renting the Kenwood estate in the aristocratic London neighborhood of Hampstead. Два издания ‘Napoleonic wars’ Frederics V.B Baron 26/08/1912 St Petersbourg 1912”