Letters from Russia, 1856 (Detailed Personal Observations of the Coronation of Tsar Alexander II)

50 pp. These letters were written in 1856 by Lt.-Col. George Ashley Maude, who had been sent as Military Attache with the Mission, headed by Lord Granville, to the Coronation of the Czar of Russia. They were written to his wife, who had been Katherine Katinka Beauclerk before her marriage, and who remained in England during his absence in Russia.--Introduction