Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Vodka Glass Decanter

Small vodka decanter from the glass service of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (1860-1919, son of Alexander II, uncle of Nicholas II), engraved with PAUL in Cyrillic beneath Russian Imperial crown. Condition: a slightly cloudy glass inside the decanter (in its lower part), a flat chip on stopper's base.

A glass decanter from the same service and of identical design is published in the 1999 exhibition catalog of the Peterhof museum, page 164.

Height 6 1/2 in. (16,5 cm).

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Original inventory number '29' is engraved under the base.

Russian Imperial family at Tsarskoe Selo, 1890s. Grand Duke Paul is the first one on the left.

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, the sixth and the last son of Alexander II, Major-General and Commander in Chief of the Life Guard Horse regiment, was married to princess Alexandra of Greece (died in 1891). In January 1919, the Grand Duke was executed in St. Peter and Paul Fortress, together with other members of the Romanov family, who stayed in St. Petersburg.

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