Unprecedented Discovery of Imperial Correspondence to Go on Sale at the Hotel des Ventes in Geneva

GENEVA.- Geneva based auctioneers Hôtel des Ventes will be selling a highly important and unique collection of extensive correspondence, photographs and drawings exchanged between H.I.H Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, H.I.H Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, H.I.H Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich and H.I.H Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and their private tutor Mr Ferdinand Thormeyer of Switzerland. The collection of 45 lots has a total value of US $ 70’000-100’000 – This exceptional collection, passed down through the same family and recently discovered in a dust-covered storage trunk, divulges many personal and intimate aspects of Imperial family life and their way of thinking. The letters provide an exclusive perspective from the last Tsars of the Imperial Russian Empire on the existing historical accounts of their childhood, journeys

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