NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838

NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Russian, 8 pages, 2° (480 x 335 mm.), the first page with the name of Emperor Nicholas I (r. 1825-1855) in gold lettering, the border with coats of arms of towns, principalities and provinces, surmounted by the Imperial double-headed eagle, other pages with crowned imperial cypher within laurel wreath at head, the fifth page enclosing an illuminated coat-of-arms in gold and colours, the final page with the signature of Nicholas I and date, with silk endpapers, bound in the silk folder, with gold-thread cord and a wax seal in silver case, the detachable cover applied with the Imperial double-headed eagle, with maker's mark of Egor Seppe, St Petersburg, 1839