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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3155

Autograph
Russia
Colonel Nicholas Golejewski
1917 (21 July) autograph letter written by Colonel Nicholas Golejewski at Galata, Romania, with registered censored cover (small part missing at top), franked 50 bani and addressed to New York.


"I wrote to you in April confiding my plan of emigration to U.S. as soon as the war was over and my duty by my country done. I am longing to do so. There is nothing left here to keep me and instead of going on struggling here against this huge nightmare of the most reverse counterfeit of liberty I long to rest and live a quiet life in a country where I can just be a man, without any heart burning".


With a copy New York Times interview titled "New Russia is Individualistic and Imaginative", 1 October 1916. Photo


Golejewski, former Assistant Military Attache at the Imperial Russian Embassy in London and Washington (1913 -16) writes on headed notepaper of the Commander of the Siberian Army, in Cyrillic regarding assistance in his emigrating to the USA.

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Estimate
£300 to £350