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Auction: SW1008 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 256

GUM Departement Store. 1 share 100 Rouble, Moscow, 1911, with 4 coupons (1917-20) - Text in Russian only Nr. 6999. This famous department store along the east side of Red Square was built between 1890 and 1893 according to the design of Alexander Pomerantsev and Vladimir Shukov and is an important monument of Russian architecture in the late 19th century. The interior gallery of the building is 250 meters long and 88 meters broad and it contains around 200 separate shops. Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, the building contained some 1'200 stores. After Revolution, the GUM was nationalised and continued to be used as a department store, but under Stalin it was converted it into governement offices. After the suicide of Stalin''s wife Nadezhda in 1932, the GUM was briefly used to display her body. 1953 it was reopened as a department store. Today it is owned by the City of Moscow and run by a private Company. This share is issued to the aristocrat Valerian Vadimovich Velichko (1874-1956). He was a famous general practitioner to the tsar and a significant art collector. EF.

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