IMPERIAL RUSSIAN NICHOLAS II CORONATION RELATED PROGRAM. For the Gala Presentation at the Imperial Bolshoi Theater in Moscow 17 May 1896 on the occasion of the Holy Coronation of His Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovich and Her Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Empress Aleksandra Feodorovna.
20 pages illustrated with chromolithographs after Ryadushkin, Samokish-Sudkovskaya and others. White boards with the Imperial Double Headed Eagle on cover, the inside of covers with gilt printed blue sheets and an ornate cartouche with the cipher of Nicholas and Alexandra. The gala opened with Glinka's Life of the Tsar and continued with Marius Petipa's ballet The Pearl. 32.5 x 24 cm.
Wear, damage in spine, some stains.