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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2202

Autographs
Sudan
Baron Rudolf Von Slatin
1896 (17 March) superb studio photograph of Baron Rudolf Von Slatin taken shortly after his escape from the Mahdists. Signed and dated by him. Photo

Major-General Rudolf Carl Von Slatin (1857-1932) was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan. Slatin was recommended by Emin Pasha to Gordon. Between 1879 and 1881 he served as Mudir of Dara until he was promoted to Governor-General. Slatin spent eleven years captive under the Mahdists until he escaped over a 1000km, three week journey across the desert to Aswan, Egypt in 1895.

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