Copies of archives concerning French and foreign artists in - Lot 92

Copies of archives concerning French and foreign artists in Russia in the 18th century. Ten files of copies of decrees, contracts, letters, petitions, accounts and other documents: over a thousand pages. Among the names of artists, craftsmen and workers cited are: Behagel, Leblond, Caravaque, Sauvage, Sualem, Coeur-d'Acier, Charlemagne-Baudet, Rastrelli, Camus, Lombard, Martin, Rochette, de Meys... Photographs of a writing-table project for Catherine II and a watch project. For his project on French artists in Russia, Denis Roche had archival documents about them copied. To do so, he obtained the authorization of Sergei Mikhailovich Gorayonov (1849-1918), Director of the State Archives, as announced to him in a letter dated May 27, 1911 by Georges Louis (1847-1917), French Ambassador to Russia, and of the Minister of the Court, as communicated to him by Konstantin Yakovlevich Gross (1853-1934), Director of the Ministry's General Archives, in a letter dated July 8, 1911. A letter and receipt from Lydia Nikolaevna UGLOVA (1863-1941), copyist in the Hermitage Prints Department. 1911. Letter from Alexander Ivanovich OUSPENSKY (1873-1938), founder and director of the Moscow Archaeological Institute, dated October 19, 1911. A letter from Sergueï GORIAÏNOV dated November 6, 1912, in which he reports on N. V. [Limont-] Ivanova's assiduous work in the archives. Provenance: Archives of Denis Roche. [Russian art]