Russian MENU NAVY PETER I

An extremely rare program-menu for Ceremonial Concert and Dinner to celebrate 200 years of establishing of Navy Guard Equipage to convoy Tsars families on water. Peter The Great established the Guard Equpage on May 1710. The Bicentenary Jubilee was 12 May 1910, the date reads on the menu. Nicholas II, his family and Imperial Navy Commanders attended the dinner-concert. The menu-program was printed in very limited edition; 200-250 exemplars, not more. It is a miracle that this fragile paper survived all the harsh time it had. The left side of program listed all composers and their music: Chaykovsky, Glinka, Godar, Green, Tzibulka, Glazunov, Wagner, Meller is in Russian language. The Dinner menu is in French and on the right side. French was first Language of Russian Court. On the upper part of the menu-program you can see all Imperial Yachts that were in use by Tsars families. The Yachts were: “Alexandria”, “Tsarevna”, “Derzava”, “Polar Star” and “Standard”. By the sides of menu-program you can see Peter the Great time uniformed sailor and Peter I cypher above (left) and Nicholas II uniformed sailor and cypher. The Program-Menu printed on a very thin and fragile paper and was glued a long, long time ago to a cardboard sheet, but any way, it has few miner losses. Extremely rare museum significancy piece. We DON'T accept CREDIT CARDs. All payments from NY State or NYC must include 8.25% Tax, unless you fill out a SIGNED NY State Tax Exempt Form. Buyer pays shipping/handling and insurance $12.00 Buyer pays shipping/handling and insurance $6.00.