WRANGEL P.N. (1878-1928) Typewritten letter addressed to Ivan Pavlovich Aleksinsky. Constantinople, February 15, 1922

2 pp. Office copy. In Russian. In the letter he expresses his gratitude and speaks of the ‘national and state significance’ of the ‘Russian Council’ for the Russian émigré community. Provenance: from the archive of I.P. Aleksinsky (1871-1945). Pyotr Nikolaevich Wrangel (1878-1928) was a Russian military commander, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War and one of the principal leaders of the White movement, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army in Crimea and Poland. Ivan Pavlovich Aleksinsky (1871-1945) was a Russian surgeon and Doctor of Medicine. From 1920 he was a prominent figure of the Russian émigré community and chairman of the Russian Patriotic Association Abroad. He treated Lieutenant General Baron P.N. Wrangel during his final illness in 1928.