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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3135

Autographs
Russia
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia
1757 (11 December) entire letter and envelope from St. Petersburg to Naples in Kingdom of the two Sicilies, the frontispiece of the letter bears the address note, with good wafer seal of the Tsarina Elizabeth.
In the letter to Charles of Bourbon she states that Caterina Alekseevna (future Empress Catherine the Great) and niece of Elizabeth, having married Pietro III, son of one of Elizabeth's sisters, happily gave birth to a girl named Anna on 7th December 1757. This long letter is signed by Elizabeth.


From an historical point of view the letter is interesting. In addition to the signature of Empress Elizabeth, it is signed at the bottom of the page by Count Aleksey Bestuzhev-Rumin, the famous and very powerful Minister of Foreign Affairs of the time. Photo

Elizabeth Petrovna (1709 – 61), also known as Yelisaveta or Elizaveta, was the Empress of Russia from 1741 until her death. She led the country during the two major European conflicts of her time: the War of Austrian Succession (1740–48) and the Seven Years' War (1756–63). She is remembered more for her 15,000 dresses, fun-loving nature and great beauty, than for any political decision she ever made. Overshadowed by her legendary descendant, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth is praised for sponsoring the founding of Moscow University, but her other achievements and important failures have been passed over.

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