1924 Imperial Russian Royalty Signed Grand Duke Duchess Princess Royal Document

  
For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important c. 1924 Imperial Russian Royalty autograph album page, hand-signed by Grand Duchess / Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. Very rare royal family grouping on a single page!

Royalty autographs / signatures are manuscript in black ink. Minor water stain to lower left hand corner of paper, as pictured. Page will be carefully removed from album. Album page measures approximately 5.5" 6.5".

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha VA CI RRC, later Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia (25 November 1876 2 March 1936) was the third child and second daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and also of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia Russian: ; Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov; 12 October O. 30 September 1876 12 October 1938 was a son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Emperor Alexander II and a first cousin of Nicholas II, Russia's last tsar. He was also the uncle of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark and great-uncle of Prince Michael of Kent.

Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia Russian: ; 30 August O. 17 August 1917 21 April 1992 was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, a position which he claimed from 1938 to his death.

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia (9 May 1909 8 September 1967) was the second daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She married Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II. Julia Bertha Culp (6 October 1880 13 October 1970), the "Dutch nightingale", was an internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano in the years 19011919.

"You might describe Julia Culp as a connoisseurs singer, " Michael Oliver wrote in the International Opera Collector in 2000. Her voice was not large, her compass not wide.

She never sang in opera; striking dramatic gesture were not her line. What she excelled in were the singers rather than the vocal actresss virtues: sustained legato line, remarkable breath control, subtle color, immaculate care for words. But connoisseurs singer does not mean that only connoisseurs can appreciate her; one becomes a connoisseur by listening to her.