Imperial Library of Tsarskoye Selo - ALLONVILLE (Armand Fran - Lot 220

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Imperial Library of Tsarskoye Selo - ALLONVILLE (Armand Fran - Lot 220
Imperial Library of Tsarskoye Selo - ALLONVILLE (Armand François d'). Secret memoirs from 1770 to 1830. Paris, Werdet, 1838. 4 vol. (out of 6, volumes I and VI are missing) Havana half-marquin with small corners, smooth spines decorated (binding of the time). Original edition (here unfortunately incomplete of the first and last volumes) of these interesting memoirs of Armand François d'Allonville (1764-1853), officer in the Army of Emigrants, before passing into the service of Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825); as camp marshal, he is said to have participated in the elaboration of the plans for the retirement of the Russian army during the first phase of the Russian Campaign in 1812. In addition to his precious memoirs (including these Secret Memoirs and Memoirs from the Papers of a Statesman, 1828-1838) written after his return to France in 1828, he left a number of unpublished manuscripts, including works on the history of Russia. Wet stamps (in French and Cyrillic) from the prestigious library of Tsarskoe Selo ("village of the Tsars"), the summer residence of the Tsars from Catherine I (1684-1727) to Nicholas II (1868-1918), located on the outskirts of St Petersburg, housing the Catherine Palace and Alexander Palace (donated by Catherine II to her favourite grandson, the future Emperor Alexander I), as well as sumptuous parks and pavilions. Known as the "Catherine Palace", Pushkin's palace is located on the grounds of a former Swedish estate known as Saari Mojs, "high place" in Finnish. Russified, the name was later changed to Sarskaya Myza and then to Sarskoe Selo, "the village of the tsars" until 1918. Alexander Pushkin studied (between 1811 and 1817) at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, founded by Alexander I and housed in a wing of the palace. There he also experienced his first love affair with the beautiful Maria Charon-Laroze, and later returned with his young wife Natalia Nikolayvna, with whom he liked to walk in the park and attend the balls that w
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