RUSSIA - ARCHIVES - Oleg TRIPET SKRYPITZINE(1848-1935, paint - Lot 536

RUSSIA - ARCHIVES - Oleg TRIPET SKRYPITZINE(1848-1935, painter, curator and patron of the Musée Fragonard in Grasse)- Notice sur la Famille TRIPET SKRYPITZINE: Father Eugène Tripet, Consul of France in Moscow, married Alexandra Feodoravna Skrypitzine and moved to Cannes, where he built the Villa Alexandra, acquired farmland and was followed by many other Russians, giving the new district the name Little Russia; on the death of his wife, Eugène had a chapel built 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 Agricultural and Horticultural Society /ARCHIVES: Oleg TS's extensive archive, compiled in 3 volumes in sheets, entitled 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 by writing, cutting out, illustrating a kind of perpetual diary in which he comments, analyzes and portrays himself; over time, the sheets have become outdated, but we can retain here 2 distinct parts:- 1°) His youth and military time, with11 letters to his father (37 p in-8) in 1876-79, from Auxonne, Dijon,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 Dragons Regiment, the autographed photo of his friend Captain Camille Hébert, the (caricatured) photo of his first platoon officer Lhuilier (a 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 wifeEsmeralda (née Alexandrine Hélène Basily), whom he had married in 1879: 19 messages from notables such 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, 2°) The second volume is devoted to WW14, with ephemerides, war stories (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 wartime godson, a soldier in the 165th Infantry, awarded the Croix de Guerre with citations, and a letter from a serviceman wounded at Verdun with a leg amputated.