Pozharskii two centuries later - an early historical work
Publication: S. Selivanovskii, Moskva, 1817.
First edition of this historical book on one of the early heroes of Russia. Rarely found oustide Russia, complete with its portrait frontispiece.
£1,750
In stock
Lovely and unusual work on one of the greatest Russian heroes: the birth of Romanovs’ Russia. First edition.
Prince Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharskii (1578-1642) is considered a Russian hero whose statue graces Moscow’s Red Square. During the early 1600s, he fought against the Poles, who, taking advantage of unstable political conditions and internal struggles for the Russian throne, had invaded Russia. In 1611 he took command of a national militia formed on the initiative of the merchant Kuzma Minin of Nizhnii Novgorod. With his improvised army he marched on Moscow in 1612 and drove out the Poles, ending the effort of King Sigismund III to subjugate Russia. Subsequently, Pozharskii summoned a representative assembly, which in 1613 elected Mikhail Romanov tsar, the first of the longest Russian dynasty.
Provenance
Avenir Nizoff (émigré, pianist, who lived in Edmonton, Canada, in the second half of the 20th century, and gathered a large, wide-ranging library of Russian works, especially covering art, history and literature).
Bibliography
Obolianinov 352 (with the wrong date of 1818).
Item number
288
Octavo (20.4 cm x 12.5 cm). Engraved frontispiece with portrait, title, [6], iv, 110 pp., folding genealogical table, [2] pp.
Binding
Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spine gilt, pale blue endpapers.
Condition
Binding rubbed, more so at extremities, hinges split at head and foot, a bit more at head of upper hinge, with a tear through the spine lettering, small figures in biro to lower pastedown; dampstaining to the gutter, stronger at beginning and end, occasional spotting.
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