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Miscellaneous: M0244
Title
Spectacles
Dimensions
width: 10cm
height: 4cm
height: 15.5cm
width: 17.5cm
height: 4cm
height: 15.5cm
width: 17.5cm
Other materials
Glass and brass
Provenance
Donated to the Garrick club by Sir David Suchet September 2021
Other number
E0107
A pair of rimmless pince-nez worn by Sir David Suchet when he played Lavrentiy Beria in the 1983 television comedy 'Red Monarch'. The film was directed by Jack Gold, and Colin Blackley as Stalin and David Threlfall as Vasily, who starred alongside David Suchet. The film was based on the series of essays called 'Red Monarch: scenes from the life of Stalin' by Yuri Krotov, a Russian dissident and former KGB agent. The glasses have been mounted onto hardboard with wire and the words "Beria's Glasses/ Red Monarch 82" has been inscribed in pen.
