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BEKETOV, Platon Petrovich.
[Description of the wedding ceremony of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and Tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva].
Moscow, Platon Beketov University Press, 1810.
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[Description of the wedding ceremony of Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich and Tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna Streshneva].
Moscow, Platon Beketov University Press, 1810.
Small folio (26.5 x 34.5 cm).
(4)-137 pp.: half-title, colophon, title page, signed preface, 65 etchings (approx. 15.5 x 19.5 cm in the plate) included in the pagination, line-engraved and hand-inked in wash by a contemporary artist, numbering engraved on the plate, text printed on the reverse of each, title page framed by an embossed frieze.
Fine, mottled fawn sheepskin of the period or slightly later, handmade paper endpapers, smooth decorated spine, gilded fleurons and scrolls, red morocco title label, gilded title, speckled edges (binding rubbed and stained, caps worn down, corners worn, edges rubbed, stains on 4 leaves, unbound, spine partially broken in the middle, slight oxidation at the edges of the leaves, lower right-hand corners slightly soiled from use, scattered stains and pinholes, stains on pp. 43–45, water damage to the two blank azure leaves, but a sound copy).
Bobins V, 1485. Obolyaninov, [Catalogue of Illustrated Russian Editions 1725–1860], 522. Gennadi, 113. Fekula Collection, 1699.
A rare antique Russian book.
Full margins. On very thick laid paper.
Complete set.
Illustrated description of the ceremony held on 5 February 1626 to mark the marriage of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich (1596–1645), the first of the Romanovs of Russia, to Eudoxia Streshneva (1608–1645).
This work, produced and edited by Platon Petrovich Beketov (1761–1836), is one of the most famous works of his career as a historian and scholar.
The account, combining text and illustrations, describes in detail the preparations for the ceremony, the feast and the wedding night, as well as the couple’s early days.
Based on a historical manuscript, it describes the entire ceremony and the various Orthodox rites that took place.
It seems that only a few copies remain in circulation: two years after this publication, Beketov’s printing press and stock were destroyed in the great fire of Moscow during the war against Napoleon’s army in 1812.
Hand-coloured at the time, here in wash.
Modern Russian bookplate in pencil on the half-title page.