My life for the book : the memoirs of a Russian publisher /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.
Uniform title:Zhizn� dl�i�a knigi. English
Imprint:Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)
Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 205 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11160412
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Other authors / contributors:Ruud, Charles A., 1933-
Soroka, Marina E.
ISBN:9780773587533
0773587535
9780773540248
0773540245
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Translated from the Russian.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
Summary:The life and times of Russia's leading pre-Revolutionary book publisher.
Other form:Print version: Lombardi, Elena. My Life for the Book : The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2014
Table of Contents:
  • 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.