[RUSSIA]. PETER I, Tsar (1672-1725), and Vasily Nikolayevich BERKH (editor). Sobranie pisem imperatora Petra I k raznym litsam s otvetami na onyye . [Collection of letters of Tsar Peter I to various persons]. St Petersburg: Pechatano v Morskoy tip., 1829-1830. First edition of Tsar Peter I ’ s correspondence, a major source for Russian 18 th -century history . Vasily Berkh gathered the material from the Admiralty Department archives, thus including correspondence with aristocratic officials such as Menshikov, Apraksin, Buturlin, Repnin, Dolgoruky and others. Remarkably, though, the edition also contains a wealth of letters addressed to the Tsar by low- or very low-ranking people. Their applications and expostulations, with references to their state, jobs, skills, hopes and circumstances, contribute to conjuring up a vivid panoply of eighteenth-century Russian society and economy. Lobashkov, 335. 4 volumes, octavo (210 x 120mm). Contemporary calf, spines laid with gilt-lettered and gilt-tooled morocco (spine covers chipped in places, sides rubbed, corners worn). Provenance : Prince E. Lvov (19th-century; bookplate) - Dmitri Gavrilovich Bibikov (general and statesman, 1792-1870; bookplate).
[RUSSIA]. PETER I, Tsar (1672-1725), and Vasily Nikolayevich BERKH (editor). Sobranie pisem imperatora Petra I k raznym litsam s otvetami na onyye . [Collection of letters of Tsar Peter I to various persons]. St Petersburg: Pechatano v Morskoy tip., 1829-1830. First edition of Tsar Peter I ’ s correspondence, a major source for Russian 18 th -century history . Vasily Berkh gathered the material from the Admiralty Department archives, thus including correspondence with aristocratic officials such as Menshikov, Apraksin, Buturlin, Repnin, Dolgoruky and others. Remarkably, though, the edition also contains a wealth of letters addressed to the Tsar by low- or very low-ranking people. Their applications and expostulations, with references to their state, jobs, skills, hopes and circumstances, contribute to conjuring up a vivid panoply of eighteenth-century Russian society and economy. Lobashkov, 335. 4 volumes, octavo (210 x 120mm). Contemporary calf, spines laid with gilt-lettered and gilt-tooled morocco (spine covers chipped in places, sides rubbed, corners worn). Provenance : Prince E. Lvov (19th-century; bookplate) - Dmitri Gavrilovich Bibikov (general and statesman, 1792-1870; bookplate).
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