Photo by S. Savitsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, ca. late 1900 (no earlier than 1906)
8.5 х 16.3 cm
Autographed on back: “To the kind Maria Vladimirovna Yeliseeva in good memories of G. I. Shah-Paroniants.”
Glafira Ivanovna SHAH-PARONIANTS (b. Yushkova) was a Russian poet, author of “From Life of the Heart,” 1907. In 1905, she married a St. Petersburg writer Leon Mikhailovich Shah-Paroniants (divorced in 1917). They lived at 12 Malaya Konushennaya, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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