AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO ALEXANDER KERENSKY (1881-1970), INCLUDING A PORTRAIT OF KERENSKY BY IRENE B. BASHKIROFF-VALIRA (AMERICAN 1913-1999), comprising 9 personal letters to Vladimir and Irene Bashkirov, including letters on the Hoover Institution Stationary, where he taught graduate courses, letters from his wife Therese Nell Triton, a resume from G. Kerensky, four vintage press photographs of Kereknsky printed by S.A.F.R.A., et. al., the painting by Irene Bashkiroff a portrait of Alexander Kerensky, dated 1937, pastel on paper, 53.4 x 44.5 cm. (21 x 17 1/2 in.), signed lower left; signed, dated and titled on verso.
LOT NOTES:
Irene B. Bashkiroff-Valira, publishing under the name Irene B. Valira, was also well known as the author and illustrator of satirical book \Miss Twisty: Adventures in the Country\" published in 1948. A.F. Kerensky was a major political leader before the Russian Revolutions in 1917. He served as Minister of Justice in the democratic Russian Provisional Government and later Minister of War and the second Prime Minister until the October Revolution.
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Bashkiroff Collection"