![]() ![]() The Tsarina was not permitted to do her own shopping and so in Buxhoeveden’s words, had to wait for the shops to send their products to her. The Tsarina’s biographer, Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden stated that the period before Christmas was always remarkably busy. We know, of course, that the Tsarina highly prized her friendships and commissioned many private gifts for the close friends of her youth but also notably, for the godchildren to whom she stood as sponsor, the Allen twins in Harrogate being a case in point. German, French and English, the first page in Russian reading ‘ From the wardrobe of Her Imperial Highness Ladies-in-waiting and has 713 entries over 168 pages written in Russian, The ledger was presumably written by the Tsarina’s ![]() It detailed the Tsarina’s imperial shopping lists and throws fresh light on her relationships and friendships during this period. Lot 429, it was one of the Tsarina’s personal ledgers dated between 18. I ‘discovered’ its existence whilst browsing past auctions for research. ![]() ![]() Consigned to Sotheby’s London auction Russian Works of Art, Faberge & Icons on 5 June 2018, was a quite remarkable object offering unique insight into the private gifts of the last Tsarina of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna. ![]()
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