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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.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2012]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012.
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 205 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits, digital file
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Translated from the Russian.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
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.
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Subject Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.
Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.
Sytin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1851-1934.
Publishers and publishing -- Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
Publishers and publishing.
Russia (Federation)
Publishers and publishing -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
History.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Ruud, Charles A., 1933-
Soroka, Marina.
Other Form: Print version: Lombardi, Elena My Life for the Book : The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,c2014
ISBN 9780773587533 (electronic book)
0773587535 (electronic book)
9780773540248
0773540245 (Trade Cloth)