LAMSDORF VLADIMIR : (1845-1907)

LAMSDORF VLADIMIR : (1845-1907) Russian Count and Stateman. Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire 1900-06 under Nicholas II. An important figure during the Russo-Japanese War and Russian Revolution of 1905. A good A.L.S., Lamsdorff, two pages, 8vo, Yelaguine, 14th July 1903, to French Ambassador, on his personal monogrammed paper, in French. The letter bears at the heading Lamsdorf´s golden crowned monogramme with his initials W.L. Lamsdorf, in his capacity as Russian Foreign Minister, refers with sorrow to the `..terrible accident occurred in Paris, on the Metropolitan railway.´ further commenting `You know well the friendship feeling that everything related to the Friend-France invariably finds in Russia.´ With blank integral leaf. EX £100-150