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Author Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.

Title 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
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 205 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
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
Summary The life and times of Russia's leading pre-Revolutionary book publisher
Notes Translated from the Russian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index
Subject Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.
SUBJECT Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934 fast
Subject Publishers and publishing -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography
Publishers and publishing -- Russia (Federation) -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Publishers and publishing
Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Ruud, Charles A., 1933-
Soroka, Marina E
ISBN 9780773587533
0773587535
9780773540248
0773540245