Adolphe Kégresse
Apr 28, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS DELWYN MALLETT
for Adolphe Kégresse that, for much of the Romanov rule of Russia from 1613, French was the of the court. When Tsar Nicholas II, recently smitten with the automobile bug, decided in 1905 to hire a personal chauffeur with the necessary mechanical expertise to maintain his cars, it was towards France that he looked. Kégresse soon proved his worth and was appointed head of the mechanical department of the Russian imperial garage. As one might imagine, the garage was not an oily rag backstreet
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