Oukhtomsky E. : “Voyage en Orient,Grece=Egypte, de son Altesse Royale le Cesarevitch 1890-91 “.Paris 1893.

First and only edition. Big Folio 38x29cm,contemporary cloth over boards, cloth slightly rubbed, complete 392p.,fifty five (55) Folio plates and many more illustrations in the text, title and portrait with light spotting, all other pages of text and plates clean and bright, overall very good condition.

Russian travel accounts in the Levant are very rare. In 1890 the Cesarevitch (the future Tsar Nicolas II) decided to tour in the Levant. It was a private cruise with a team of art historians, archaeologists etc in his retinue. Prince Oukhtomsky kept a calendar and wrote the account published in Paris, in a very Luxurious Folio richly illustrated publication. The Russians visited Patras and then travelled to Ancient Olympia. The recent then great discoveries of the archaeological site impressed the Russian team and several pages are dedicated to Olympia and its recent discoveries. They continued to Athens where they were received by the Greek King and his wife Queen Olga. They toured around, visiting Korinthos and other places, before leaving for Egypt and finally India. Rare Russian travel account for Greece in luxurious edition.