Prince Alexei Fyodorovich ORLOFF (1787–1862, Russian military officer and diplomat, a trusted confidant of Tsar Nicholas I; he served as Chairman of the…

Prince Alexei Fyodorovich ORLOFF (1787–1862, Russian military officer and diplomat, a trusted confidant of Tsar Nicholas I; he served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1856 to 1861, it was in his honor that his French chef, Urbain Dubois, named his famous veal recipe “Selle de Veau Orloff”) / Autograph letter written in the third person, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, Paris, January 23, 1857, to the bookseller Dumaine in Paris: He asks him to recommend “the best and most recent

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