Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.

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.



9780773587533 9780773540248


Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.


Publishers and publishing--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
Publishers and publishing--History.--Russia (Federation)
Publishers And Publishing--Europe
Russia (Federation)--Biography
Businesspeople--Biography
Language Arts & Disciplines--Publishing
Biography & Autobiography--General
Biography & Autobiography--Business


Electronic Books.

Z368 / .M955 2012