RUSSIA - IMPERIAL LAW SCHOOL - Lot 260

RUSSIA - IMPERIAL LAW SCHOOL Album featuring portraits of the Oldenburg family and young students at the Imperial Law School, St. Petersburg, ca.1900-1910. Photographs. Album featuring 58 period prints, 56 of them silver and 2 citrate, one with Rentz & Schrader dry stamp under the image. Portrait of Princes Alexander of Oldenburg (signed in ink) and Peter Georgievich, of Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, group portraits, reception in a neoclassical building, dinner, young students in front of a painting of Nicholas II, costume ball with men dressed as women, students on horseback, theater set, imperial school buildings: students in front of the library entrance, in the sports hall; dormitories. Images: 7.8 x 8.2 cm to 22.5 x 28.7 cm; album: 30 x 41.5 cm The Imperial School of Law (or Jurisprudence) was founded by Duke Peter of Oldenburg in 1835. Reserved for men, the school offered a 6 or 7-year curriculum and welcomed famous students such as Stasov, Nabokov and Tchaikovsky.