RUMYANTSEV NIKOLAI PETROVICH (1754–1826), Count Autograph certificate issued to Theodore Pepin, who served the Count during his stay in Paris. Paris, February 14, 1809.

Lotto 29

400500

1 double leaf in-folio. With Count Rumyantsev’s red wax seal bearing his coat of arms and his autograph signature. Text and signature in French. Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (1754-1826) was a prominent statesman of the Russian Empire, head of Russian diplomacy during the Napoleonic Wars, a major patron of the arts, founder of the Rumyantsev Museum. He resided in Paris for four months, from November 1808 to February 1809.

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