LOT 273 [RUSSIAN PRINCELY FAMILY] A LATE 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN SILVER...
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[RUSSIAN PRINCELY FAMILY] A LATE 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN SILVER FIDDLE AND THREAD PATTERN SOUP LADLE BY SAZIKOV1877-82 cursive script mark, International medal winners mark, Moscow 1882, 84 zolotniki, Imperial warrant, engraved with an armorial under a crown, 35.5cm (14in) long, 357g (11.45 oz)These engraved arms can be identified as belonging to a Russian Prince. The arms belong to the descendants of Sergey Grigorievich VOLVONSKY (1788-1865) who married to Maria RAYEVSKAYA.Prince Sergey was a grandson of Field Marshal Nicholas Repnin, a leading statesman during Catherine the Great's reign. He was a Major General in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in the December conspiracy of 1825 and despite being sentenced to be beheaded had his sentence commuted to life in prison: as an exile for thirty years in Siberia. He was allowed to return in 1856 on the accession of Alexander II. He lived the remainder of his life with his wife Maria in the village of Voronki (Little Russia), which was owned by their daughter. He was a cousin of Leo Tolstoy.
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