Russkii biograficheskii slovar’. Bukvy"V" i "T"’

 

Published in 25 volumes by the Imperial Russian Historical Society between 1896 and 1918, The Russian Biographical Dictionary is arguably the single most important source of biographical and bibliographical information on Russian figures and foreign personalities who worked in the Russian Empire, Old Rus' and Muscovy from earliest times to the end of the Imperial period.

The 25 published volumes consist of more than 16,000 pages. The biographies were authored by some of the leading historians, bibliographers and literary scholars of the Imperial period, and many are based on extensive printed, archival and manuscript sources. The biographical dictionary was originally to contain more than 50,000 entries. However, only a portion of these were completed and not all of those completed were published. Two volumes have remained in page proof or galleys since the beginning of the 20th century. Only a few libraries in the world hold them in xerographic copies. These two volumes (the letters V & T) are now available for the first time in book form (from the original galleys). They include an introduction to the entire series, its history and its structure, written by Edward Kasinec, Chief of the Slavic and Baltic Division, The New York Public Library, and Robert H. Davis Jr., also of The New York Public Library. Prof. Robert T. Whittaker of Lehman College, The City University of New York, is also an advisor to the project.1991. Volume V (xii + 624 pp.), Volume T (xii + 208 pp.), 8 x11",

 

IISBN : 0-88354-350-8 & 351-6. 1991 (Volumes V & T).....................................................$40
Individual volumes, each........................................................................................................$25