Historical Documents

GRIGORI RASPUTIN (1872-1916) Russian peasant monk and court favorite who wielded a strange power over Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra; preached

CATHERINE II (1729-96) Empress of Russia (1762-96), known as "Catherine the Great"; greatly expanded the domain of the Russian Empire. DS,...

PAUL I (1754-1801) Czar of Russia (1796-1801), son of Catherine the Great; hated by his people for his cruelty and manaiacal obsession with a military

NICHOLAS I (1796-1855) Czar of Russia. DS, as Czar, 1 1/2pp (single sheet), April 16, 1832, legal folio, St Petersburg, granting the Second Rate Order

MARIA FEDEROVNA Russian Empress, wife of Czar Paul I (1754-1801). LS, from tutelar Ivan Savrasov, 1p, 1827, 4to, re activities in a special educationa

ALEXANDER I (1777-1825) Czar of Russia, defeated Napoleon. DS, as Czar, 1 1/2pp, Aug 30, 1825, legal folio, granting awards, Anna 2nd Class with Diamo

ALEXANDER II (1818-81) Emperor of Russia (1855-81); greatest achievement was probably the emancipation of the serfs (1861); made important contributio

LEON TROTSKY (1879-1940) Russian Communist leader; organized the Red Army; expelled from the Soviet Union after Stalin came to power. Typed DS, as hea

LEON TROTSKY DS, signed in light purple pencil, 1p, 1923, oblong 8vo, to the secretariate of air forces, re a special detachment of the air force, wit

PYOTR A KROPOTKIN (1842-1921) Russian anarchist and philosopher; became foremost leader and theorist of anarchist movement; developed theory of &quo...