Vadim Markovich Rynkov,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia, е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A Review of a Book: Razdorskiy A.I. Printed Most Faithful Reports of Viseroys, Governor-Generals, Governors, Town Governors in the Russian Empire. 1845–1916. Cumulative Book Catalogue. St. Petersburg: Dmitriy Bulanin, 2020. 976 p.
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-2-22
The review of a bibliographical publication, written by A.I. Razdorskiy, an employee of National Library of Russia. At the moment, the most complete information about the most essential resource on Russian history in 1845–1916 is presented in the reviewed cumulative book catalogue. The compiler carried out large preparatory work on eliciting the manuscript and printed copies of the most faithful reports, analysis of experience of reports bibliographing, summed up their study in Russian historiography during more than a century, made a further detailed source and archaeographic analysis, formed onto groups and statistically worked out massive bibliographical material. The accomplished work allowed to systematize a significant complex of printed most faithful reports of governor-generals, viceroys governors, town governors of the Russian Empire over a long period of its existence, describe in details some copies of printed reports, elicited in various archives and libraries, define and emphasize lacunae existing in the catalogue.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 27.02.2023
How to cite: Rynkov V.M. A Review of a Book: Razdorskiy A.I. Printed Most Faithful Reports of Viseroys, Governor-Generals, Governors, Town Governors in the Russian Empire. 1845–1916. Cumulative Book Catalogue. St. Petersburg: Dmitriy Bulanin, 2020. 976 p. // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 2 (28), pp. 274–277. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2023-2-22.pdf]
Links: Issue 2 2023
Keywords: cumulative book catalogue; most faithful reports; bibliography; historiography; source studies