Rare wooden frame containing the shoulder tabs... Lot 15

Rare wooden frame containing the shoulder tabs and buttonholes of the commander of the 16th Irkutsk Hussar Regiment, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia (1856-1929). With engraved brass plate in Russian relating the provenance. Russia, circa 1910. Frame : 29 x 24,5 cm Legs : L. 16 cm Buttonholes : L. 11 cm Provenance - Grand Duke Nikolaï Nikolaevich Romanov (1856-1929), grandson of Tsar Nicolas I and supreme chief of the Russian Imperial Armies. - Count Feodor Maximillianovich Nirode (1871-1952), Russian major-general - preserved in his descendants. History Theodore (Feodor) Nirode, major-general, was appointed in 1906 aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief of the Guards and the Military District of St. Petersburg. Between 1907 and 1911 he served as aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaevich of Russia, and in 1911-1912 he commanded the 16th Irkutsk Hussar Regiment, succeeding Grand Duke Nicholas, and then also the Guard Dragoons.