RARE SET OF KAMER-FURYERSKIY ZHURNALS (KAMMERFURIER JOURNALS), 1853-1917

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RARE SET OF KAMER-FURYERSKIY ZHURNALS (KAMMERFURIER JOURNALS), 1853-1917
Kamer-furyerskiy tseremonialnye zhurnaly, 1695-1818, [Kammerfurier Ceremonial Journals], (St. Petersburg: Tipografia Departamenta udelov, unless otherwise noted, 1853-1917). Each volume an edition of only 102 (later 200) copies. 8vo (265 x 180 mm), bound in half-leather unless otherwise noted. Text in Russian. Titles include:

annual and biannual journals
Alphabet Index of Persons Mentioned in the Kammerfurier Journal
Ceremonial, Banquet, and Military Campaign Kammerfurier Journals Military Campaign Journals
Journal of the Kammerfurier Office on Behalf of Sovereign Emperor Alexander Pavlovich [Alexander I]
Kammerfurier Ceremonial Journal of Sovereign Empress Maria Fyodorovna

comprising:

1. Pokhodnye zhurnaly, 1695-1711, [pub. 1853], 637 pp. Total (38+23+34+20+25+41+9+10+8+3+16+148+26+20+14+34+26+24+118)
2. Alphabetical index to tseremonialnym, banketnym i pokhodnym kamer-furyerskim zhurnalam, 1695-1727, pub. 1910, unbound, 354 pp.
3. Pokhodnye zhurnaly, 1719-1726, pub. 1855, 656 pp. (131+51+76+194+41+49+68+46)
4. 1726-1742, 222 pp. [Original manuscripts for the years 1727-1729, 1731-1733, 1735, 1740, 1741 and 1747 are now lost]
5. 1745-1748, 154 pp. + fold-outs
6. 1758-1760, 196 pp.
7. 1761-1762, 691 pp. total (172+7+7+119+75+311)
8. 1765-1766, 270 pp.
9. 1767-1768, 260 pp.
10. Tseremonialnyi, banketniy i pokhodnyi kamer-furyerskiy zhurnaly, 1769-1770, 560 pp. total (402 pp. (tseremonialnyi)+134 pp. (banketniy)+24 pp. (pokhodnyi))
11. 1771-1772, 527 pp.
12. 1777, including alphabetical index, pub. 1880, 1008 pp.
13. January-July, 1779, pub. 1883, 303 pp.
14. August-December 1779, pub. 1884, 389 pp.
15. 1780, pub. 1888, 913 pp.
16. 1781, including alphabetical index, pub. 1890, 830 pp. total (808+22)
17. 1782, pub. 1882, 626 pp.
18. 1785, including alphabetical index and appendices, pub. 1885, 851 pp. total (783+XXVI+3-45)
19. 1786, pub. 1886, 768 pp.
20. 1787, pub. 1886, 1012 pp.
21. 1788, pub. 1887, 786 pp.
22. 1789, pub. 1888, 594 pp.
23. 1790, pub. 1889, 696 pp.
24. 1791, pub. 1890, 784 pp.
25. 1792, pub. 1892, 744 pp.
26. 1793, pub. 1892, 939 pp.
27. 1796, pub. 1896, 892 pp.
28. January-March 1797, including alphabetical index, pub. 1896, 585 pp. total (23+562)
29. July-September 1797, including alphabetical index for April-December 1797, pub. 1897, 1001 pp.
30. October-December 1797, pub. 1879, 550 pp. total (422+128)
31. January-July 1798, pub. 1897, 786 pp.
32. Alphabetical index for 1798, pub. 1898, 1079 pp.
33. January-June 1799 (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1898, 971 pp.
34. July-December 1799, including alphabetical index (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1898, 1991+51 pp.
35. January-June 1800 (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1899, 575 pp.
36. July-December 1800 (vol. 2 of 2), including alphabetical index, pub. 1900, 667+37 pp.
37. January-June 1801 (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1901, 527 pp.
38. July-December 1801 (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1901, 602 pp.
39. January-June 1802 (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1902, 741 pp.
40. July-December 1802 (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1902, 930 pp.
41. January-June 1803, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1903, 742 pp. total (711+31)
42. July-December 1804 (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1904, 863 pp.
43. January-June 1805 (vol. 1 of 2), including alphabetical index, pub. 1904, 480 pp.
44. January-June 1806 (vol. 1 of 2), including alphabetical index, pub. 1905, 784 pp.
45. 1806, including alphabetical index, pub. 1905, unbound, 741 pp. total (708+33)
46. 1806, including alphabetical index, pub. 1905, unbound, 756 pp.
47. January-June 1808, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1907, unbound, missing pp. after 784
48. July-December 1808 (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1907, unbound, missing pp. after 432
49. February-August 1808, including alphabetical index, pub. 1907, unbound, 680 pp.
50. January-June 1809, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1908, unbound, 621 pp.
51. July-December 1809, including alphabetical index (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1908, unbound, 591 pp.
52. January-June 1810, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), pub. 1909, unbound, 638 pp.
53. July-December 1810, including alphabetical index (vol. 2 of 2), pub. 1909, unbound, 563 pp.
54. Kamer-furyerskiy tseremonialnyi zhurnal Gosudaryny Imperatritsy Marii Fedorovny, July-December 1810 (St. Petersburg: Izdanie Obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1909), unbound, 577 pp.
55. Kamer-furyerskiy tseremonialnyi zhurnal Gosudaryny Imperatritsy Marii Fedorovny, January-August 1811, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2) (St. Petersburg: Izdanie Obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1910), unbound, 781 pp.
56. January-June 1811, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (St. Petersburg: Izdanie Obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1910), unbound, 919 pp.
57. July-December 1811 (vol. 2 of 2), (St. Petersburg: Izdanie Obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1910), unbound, 976 pp.
58. January-June 1812, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (St. Petersburg: Izdanie Obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1911) unbound, 909 pp.
59. Kamer-furyerskiy zhurnal Gosudarya Imperatora Aleksandra Pavlovicha, July-December 1812, including alphabetical index (vol. 2 of 2), (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva byvshego Ministerstva Dvora, 1911), unbound, 798 pp.
60. 1813, including alphabetical index, pub. 1912, unbound, 822 pp.
61. January-June 1814, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (St. Petersburg: Izdanie Obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1913), 456 pp.
62. January-June 1816, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva byvshego Ministerstva Dvora, 1915), unbound, 866 pp.
63. January-June 1816, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva byvshego Ministerstva Dvora, 1915), unbound, 580 pp.
64. July-December 1816, including alphabetical index (vol. 2 of 2), (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva byvshego Ministerstva Dvora, 1915), 363 pp.
65. Zhurnal kamer-furyerskoy dolzhnosti na polovine Gosudarya Imperatora Aleksandra Pavlovicha, January-June 1817, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva byvshego Ministerstva Dvora, 1916), unbound, 490 pp.
66. Kamer-furyerskiy tseremonialnyi zhurnal Gosudaryny Imperatritsy Marii Fedorovny, January-June 1817, including alphabetical index (vol. 1 of 2), (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva Ministerstva Imperatorskogo Dvora, 1916), unbound, missing pp. after 544
67. January-December 1818, including alphabetical index, (Petrograd: Izdanie obshago Arkhiva byvshego Ministerstva Dvora, 1917), unbound, 709 pp.

LOT NOTES
Our research indicates only 6 complete collections of 177 volumes of the Kamer-furyerskiy zhurnal, namely at the The Russian State Library (Moscow), RGIA (Russian State Historical Archive, Laboratory of Microfilming and Document Restoration, Moscow), the State Historic Public Library of Russia (St. Petersburg), the library of the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the New York Public Library (New York), and the library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison). To our knowledge, this is the first set to ever appear at auction.

These Kammerfurier Ceremonial Journals, so named after the Kammerfuriers, or Collegiate Councillors (civil rank of the 6th class, according to the Table of Ranks), who recorded the everyday chronicles, reflect over 200 years of life at the Russian Imperial Court: descriptions of balls, banquets, weddings, performances, coronations, and military operations. Begun in 1695 as Peter the Great`s diaries of his Azov military campaigns, the journals conclude with Nicholas the II`s abdication, and provide a unique insight into the covert affairs and lavish celebrations at the Russian court. The journals, reprinted from original manuscripts at the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were often sent out to members of the imperial family and gifted to confidants. This particular set, for one, includes several volumes, bound in full leather and monogrammed SA in gilt embossing, from the collection of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian 1857-1905); as well as eight volumes bearing the ex-libris of Georgy Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (Russian 1862-1928), a military and government figure and a descendant of Catherine the Great.

PROVENANCE
Several volumes embossed on spine with the monogram of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (Russian 1857-1905). Eight volumes bear ex-libris / inventory labels of Georgy Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (Russian 1862-1928). Some volumes marked with labels of the V.I. Klyuchkov bookstore, Saint-Petersburg.
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