The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Other Allied Armies Russian
RCC6784
The Russian Army in World War 1: How Ten Million Died in the Russian Snows
ISBN
0860330028
Purchase Price
£10.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
September 10, 2010
Publisher
Gordon Cremonesi Publishers (1975, London)
Notes
This book has a bookplate from the library of Prince Yuri Galitzine.. The Galitzine family can be traced back to the Middle Ages when they were Grand Dukes of Lithuania. In the 14th Century one son became King of Poland, while his brother moved to Moscow to found a rich and powerful dynasty. 200 years later a member of the family was chosen to be Tsar of Russia. The Revolution of 1917 resulted in the loss of the Galitzine Estates and Prince Yuri's grandfather emigrated to Paris. Prince Yuri was born in Japan in 1919 and spent his early years in Austria and France before being brought to England at the age of 7 to learn the language and attend school. However, his family fell on hard times and Prince Yuri left school to become a glove maker, then a representative, before gaining an apprenticeship with Fairey Aviation. At the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment. Having gained a commission in the Royal Northunmberland Fusiliers, he served in Northern Ireland and North Africa (at El Alamein), followed by Tunis, where he became liaison officer with the Free French. D Day saw him commanding the Propaganda Unit of the U.S. 45th Division, and when the war ended he was involved with War Crime Investigations. After the war Prince Yuri worked as a journalist and press officer before starting his own P.R. business. By 1982 he had become Regional Vice-President of an international group of companies. He developed a deep interest in local history and in particular that of Rutland where he lived for much of his life. He was a founder and long standing chairman of the Rutland Society, becoming its president in 1989. In 2002 he donated his large collection of Rutland papers to the Society, they now form a major part of the reference library housed in the Prince Yuri Galitzine Room at Rutland County Museum.He died in November 2002. His other books from his library were discarded by the purchasers of his house. This book was bought from one of the specialist Stamford bookshops.
0860330028
Purchase Price
£10.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
September 10, 2010
Publisher
Gordon Cremonesi Publishers (1975, London)
Notes
This book has a bookplate from the library of Prince Yuri Galitzine.. The Galitzine family can be traced back to the Middle Ages when they were Grand Dukes of Lithuania. In the 14th Century one son became King of Poland, while his brother moved to Moscow to found a rich and powerful dynasty. 200 years later a member of the family was chosen to be Tsar of Russia. The Revolution of 1917 resulted in the loss of the Galitzine Estates and Prince Yuri's grandfather emigrated to Paris. Prince Yuri was born in Japan in 1919 and spent his early years in Austria and France before being brought to England at the age of 7 to learn the language and attend school. However, his family fell on hard times and Prince Yuri left school to become a glove maker, then a representative, before gaining an apprenticeship with Fairey Aviation. At the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment. Having gained a commission in the Royal Northunmberland Fusiliers, he served in Northern Ireland and North Africa (at El Alamein), followed by Tunis, where he became liaison officer with the Free French. D Day saw him commanding the Propaganda Unit of the U.S. 45th Division, and when the war ended he was involved with War Crime Investigations. After the war Prince Yuri worked as a journalist and press officer before starting his own P.R. business. By 1982 he had become Regional Vice-President of an international group of companies. He developed a deep interest in local history and in particular that of Rutland where he lived for much of his life. He was a founder and long standing chairman of the Rutland Society, becoming its president in 1989. In 2002 he donated his large collection of Rutland papers to the Society, they now form a major part of the reference library housed in the Prince Yuri Galitzine Room at Rutland County Museum.He died in November 2002. His other books from his library were discarded by the purchasers of his house. This book was bought from one of the specialist Stamford bookshops.
