My life for the book : the memoirs of a Russian publisher /
Ivan D. Sytin ; translated, edited, and annotated by Charles A. Ruud and Marina E. Soroka.
- Montreal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2012. (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2012).
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 205 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I Memoirs Ivan D. Sytin. By way of introduction; Parting with Sharapov and the birth of mediator; The demise of the itinerant peddlers; How Russian Word was born; Acquiring the complete works of L.N. Tolstoy; Encounters with P.A. Stolypin and others; The North; The all-Russian Council of People's Deputies; Meetings with Gorky and Lenin. Part II Recollections about Sytin by others. Evdokia Ivanovna Sytina and Bersenvka by Sergei Sokolov; Letters from Vlas Doroshevich to Sytin about editing Russian Word; Reminiscences about Sytin by Altaev, Morylkov, Iablonovsky and Utevsky.
The life and times of Russia's leading pre-Revolutionary book publisher.
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Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.
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