Renaissance-style brass mounted wooden money casket which belonged to Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (Russian – Великий Князь Павел Александрович).

Length 10 1/8 in. (25,8 cm), height 6 in. (15,2 cm), depth 7 1/2 in. (18,8 cm)

A very rare object

The lid is applied with a finely engraved Imperial crown and four polished letters ‘ П ‘ forming an x-shaped cross (known as St. Andrew cross)

Russian Imperial family at Tsarskoe Selo, 1890s. Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich is the first one on the left.

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, the sixth and the last son of Alexander II, Major-General and Commander in Chief of the Life Guard Horse regiment, was married to princess Alexandra of Greece (died in 1891). In January 1919, the Grand Duke was executed in St. Peter and Paul Fortress, together with other members of the Romanov family, who stayed in St. Petersburg.