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From the Estate of COUNTESS IRINA TOLSTOÏ
BROCHE NŒUD DIAMANTS FIN XIXÈME SIÈCLE
Details
BROCHE NŒUD DIAMANTS FIN XIXÈME SIÈCLE
Diamants taille ancienne d'approximativement 1.82 carat et diamants taille ancienne, or 14K (585) et argent (800), circa 1880, 6.9 cm, poids brut : 16.01 g
LATE 19TH CENTURY DIAMOND BOW BROOCH
Old-cut diamond of approximately 1.82 carat and old-cut diamonds, 14K gold (585) and silver (800), circa 1880, 6.9 cm, gross weight: 16.01 g
Diamants taille ancienne d'approximativement 1.82 carat et diamants taille ancienne, or 14K (585) et argent (800), circa 1880, 6.9 cm, poids brut : 16.01 g
LATE 19TH CENTURY DIAMOND BOW BROOCH
Old-cut diamond of approximately 1.82 carat and old-cut diamonds, 14K gold (585) and silver (800), circa 1880, 6.9 cm, gross weight: 16.01 g
Provenance
Christie's New York, 24 octobre 1991, lot 424
Further Details
Née à Saint-Pétersbourg à la veille la révolution russe, la comtesse Irina Tolstoï, est la fille du comte Nikolaï Tolstoï et une petite-nièce de Léon Tolstoï, auteur de Guerre et Paix. Comme d'autres membres de la noblesse russe, sa famille fuit en Europe occidentale, Irina habite alors à Paris et plus tard à Berlin. Alors qu'elle est encore adolescente, elle épouse Folike Lubromiraki, un prince polonais. Après la mort précoce de son mari, la comtesse Tolstoï se remarie. Soupçonnés par la Gestapo, Irina et son second mari fuient Berlin vers l'Extrême-Orient. Ils voyagent en Transsibérien en prétendant ne pas pouvoir parler, car leur accent russe aurait évidemment pu entraîner leur arrestation et leurs morts aux mains de la police secrète russe.
Countess Irina Tolstoy, born in St. Petersburg just before the Russian Revolution, was the Daughter of Count Nikolay Tolstoy and a grandniece of Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace. Like other Russian nobility, her family fled to Western Europe where Irina lived in Paris and later Berlin. While still in her teens she married Folike Lubromiraki, a Polish prince. After her husband's death at an early age, Countess Tolstoy remarried. Under Gestapo suspicion Irina and her second husband fled Berlin to the Far East. They travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway under the pretense of being unable to speak, since their obvious Russian accents could have prompted arrest and death at the hands of the Russian secret police.
Countess Irina Tolstoy, born in St. Petersburg just before the Russian Revolution, was the Daughter of Count Nikolay Tolstoy and a grandniece of Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace. Like other Russian nobility, her family fled to Western Europe where Irina lived in Paris and later Berlin. While still in her teens she married Folike Lubromiraki, a Polish prince. After her husband's death at an early age, Countess Tolstoy remarried. Under Gestapo suspicion Irina and her second husband fled Berlin to the Far East. They travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway under the pretense of being unable to speak, since their obvious Russian accents could have prompted arrest and death at the hands of the Russian secret police.
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