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Vystavka 1812 goda: illyustrirovannoe izdanie.

[Exhibition Dedicated to the Year 1812: Illustrated Edition].

Stock Code 89248

Levenson, Moskva, 1913

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The Deluxe version. Uncommon lavish production dedicated to the Patriotic War - rarely complete and here in the very scarce preferred version fully bound in cloth with the Russian gilt double-headed eagle

The 1912 centenary of the great victory against Napoleon was marked in Imperial Russia by a series of events and publications. The present book was one of the most lavish ones. Published by the recently formed Committee for the Construction of the 1812 Museum in Moscow, it accompanied an important exhibition held at the Historical Museum on the Red Square. The opening of the 1812 museum was actually supposed to be a major event within the programme of celebrations of the jubilee; however, because of the long lasting reconstruction of the premises allocated to the museum, its opening was postponed and the Committee chose a temporary exhibition.

The exhibition comprised items predominantly gathered from Imperial museums (such as the Hermitage and the Kremlin Armory), but also loaned by prominent private collections, such A. A. Bakhrushyn's, S. N. Tsvetaev's, P. S. Sheremetiev's and P. I. Shchukin's.

The thick and richly illustrated catalogue comprises not only detailed descriptions of the exhibited items, but also a list of documents that were not on display due to shortage of space. Interestingly, the editor gave preference in the illustrations to items from private collections, which were not easily accessed even by specialists, leave alone the general public. It was planned that after the reconstruction was completed, all these items would constitute the core collection of the newly built museum. Unfortunately, the First World War delayed the opening of the museum and the events of the year 1917 made the organisers to abandon this project completely.

Folio (36.5 x 27 cm). Title, 608, [2], with 27 plates with tissue guards, 11 of which are in colour, 221 tipped-in illustrations; as issued with gaps in pagination between pp. 167-177, 298-306 and 447-458, small marginal tears to a few leaves. Contemporary beige cloth, gilt double-eagle crest and gilt lettering to upper cover, white moire endpapers; darkened, one hinge slightly starting.


Венгеров, Библиохроника I-155 (the usual version in wrappers, bound in a private binding).
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Provenance: Volf knizhnyy magazin (gilt label to upper fly-leaf).

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Vystavka 1812 goda: illyustrirovannoe izdanie.

[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. BOZHOVSKIY, Vasiliy Konstantinovich.

Stock code: 89248

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