Lot n° 285
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[CONFIRMATION OF PRINCE BORIS OF BULGARIA]. - Lot 285
[CONFIRMATION OF PRINCE BORIS OF BULGARIA].
Bound in black and brown morocco, decorated in the center of the cover with the inscription in gold letters "Cérémonie de la confirmation du prince Boris de Bulgarie, Sofia 12-20 février 1896", folio (230x160 mm), containing: a photographic portrait of Princess Louise-Marie (cabinet size), a photographic portrait of the Prime Minister, Constantin Stoilov (1853-1901), (cabinet size), a photographic portrait of Archbishop Gregorius (1828-1898), who anoints Prince Boris on February 2, 1896, (cabinet size), a photographic portrait of Prime Minister Dragan Tsankov (1828-1911), a photographic portrait of Prime Minister Theodor Theodorov (1859-1924), (cabinet size), a pre-stamped postcard depicting the young Prince Boris dated February 2, 1896, the invitation card to the dinner on January 31, 1896 in the name of H. E. Kostaki Karathe. E. Kostaki Karatheodori Pasha (ambassador of H.M.I. the Sultan), the agenda for the ceremony held at Sofia Palace on February 1, 1896, the invitation card for the dinner at Sofia Court on February 1, 1896 in the name of H.E. Kostaki Karatheodori Pasha (ambassador of H.M.I. the Sultan). Kostaki Karatheodori Effendi, the menu for the dinner served on February 1, 1896, the program for the show that followed on the same day, the program for the Gala presentation in the salons of the military school on February 1, the invitation card for the dinner on February 2, 1896 in the name of H. E. Kostaki Karatheodori Pasha, the menu for the dinner served on this occasion as well as the program for the show, the agenda dated February 4, 1896, the menu for the dinner and the program for February 5, 1896. Contemporary wear, accident to spine, as is.
History: this album was given as a souvenir of the celebrations organized in Sofia for the conversion of Prince Boris (1894-1943), to the official representative and ambassador extraordinary of Sultan Mahmoud II, Alexander (Kostaki) Karatheodori Pasha. It shows the celebrations of the conversion to the Orthodox Church of the heir to the Bulgarian throne, who had originally been baptized Catholic. Despite the opening photograph of Queen Louise-Marie, she did not actually attend the ceremony. Instead, she took refuge in Vienna at the Palais Cobourg, as her sister-in-law, Princess Louise Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, explained in her Memoirs. With this act of conversion, the Pope had excommunicated Prince Ferdinand. He had simply applied the rules of the Bulgarian constitution, requiring the future monarch to be baptized in the Orthodox Church, even though Ferdinand and Marie-Louise were Catholics.
Biography: Alexander (Kostaki) Karatheodori Pasha (1833-1906), was a Constantinople-born statesman from a prominent Phanariot family, and his father Stefanos Karatheodori was the sultan's personal physician. Alexandre Karatheodori Pacha studied law in Paris, then pursued a career in the civil service of the Ottoman Empire. In 1874, he was appointed ambassador to Rome, and in 1878 took part in the preliminary negotiations with Russia on the Treaty of San Stefano. He was then appointed chief commissioner of the Sultan at the Congress of Berlin, where he succeeded in modifying the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano in favor of the Ottoman Empire. In December 1878, he became the Sultan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, and subsequently held various high posts as the Sultan's official representative in Bulgaria and Greece. He died in Constantinople
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