RUSSE CANNES (06) - Oleg TRIPET°° SKRYPITZINE (1848-1935, pa - Lot 167

RUSSE CANNES (06) - Oleg TRIPET°° SKRYPITZINE (1848-1935, painter, curator and patron of the Fragonard Museum in Grasse) - Notice sur la Famille TRIPET SKRYPITZINE: Father Eugène Tripet, Consul of France in Moscow, married Alexandra Feodoravna Skrypitzine and settled in Cannes, building the Villa Alexandra, acquiring agricultural land, followed by many other Russians, which led to this new district being called "Little Russia"; on the death of his wife, Eugène built a chapel on her land; in 1924, after having subdivided the land, Oleg donated part of it to the town of Cannes, which became the Cros-Vieil district; Oleg continued to be involved in local life, becoming a town councillor and President of the Société Agricole et Horticole / Oleg TS's archive, collected in 3 volumes in sheets, titled "Au cours de ma vie" (In the course of my life); Oleg had a lifelong passion for memory, for preserving current events on a day-to-day basis, writing, cutting, illustrating a kind of perpetual diary in which he comments, analyzes and stages himself; over time, the sheets have been downgraded, but we can retain here 2 distinct parts: 1°) his youth and military time, with 11 letters to his father (37 p in-8) in 1876-79, from Auxonne, Dijon, Marseille, his appointment by the Minister of War to the rank of lieutenant in 1877, 2 photos in lieutenant's uniform in the 10th Dragoon Regiment, the autographed photo of his friend Captain Camille Hébert, the (caricatured) photo of his first platoon officer Lhuilier ("un maboul"), the large photo of General Pellé, the letter from the Berger-Levrault bookshop concerning the shipment of the book on the history of the 10th, followed by several sheets of articles and cut-outs on dragoons and cavalry and several documents; a photo of Marseille painter Etienne Martin - Oleg then kept a set of visiting cards written in 1882 on the death of his wife Esmeralda (née Alexandrine Hélène Basily), whom he had married in 1879: 19 messages from such notables as the Roux family of Marseille, Salignac Fénelon (his sister was married to a member of this family), the Bishop of Fréjus and Toulon, etc.This is followed by a large set of inscriptions containing around 500 signatures of personalities present at a funeral in Marseille on August 16, 1892 (death unidentified). It is safe to say that all of Marseille's society was present, with signatures from the Ballazzi, Canaple, Roux, Azuelos, Pianello, Gilbert des Voisins, Métaxas, Mavrogardato, Nicolaidès, Séchiari, Tommasi, Fraissinet, Alphandery families, etc., among others.followed by 50 pages of miscellaneous articles on the painter Ziem, Gambetta, Normandy, the events of May 16, 1877, etc, The second volume is devoted to the First World War, with the "éphémérides, récits de guerre" (battle of Issoncourt in September 1914): over 100 handwritten pages and 150 p of cut-out articles; of note, preserved in envelopes, are letters from his godson, a soldier in the 165th infantry, awarded the Croix de Guerre with citations, and a letter from a soldier wounded at Verdun with a leg amputated.