Georgy Kreskentiyevich LUKOMSKI (1884-1952) Ancient... Lot 191

Georgy Kreskentiyevich LUKOMSKI (1884-1952) Ancient Vologda Description of historical monuments. Published by the Circle of Amateurs of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 1914. Numerous illustrated photographs, printed on heavy off-white paper. Format in-12°, 363 pages. A few small creases and tears on the cover, insolation on the spine. Good condition. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.