Bookplates of contemporaries of T. G. Shevchenko by Jacob Berdichevsky

Catalogue of bookplates of contemporaries — acquaintances of Т. G. Shevchenko

published in: 2006

That's a long story of this work.

In 1987 to sad Pushkin's anniversary I had prepared and published a catalogue of the bookplates of A. S. Pushkin's contemporaries with whom the poet was acquaint. Having received edition circulation I presented to the keeper of funds of museum T. G. Shevchenko two copies – for the museum and to her personally. She has rather insistently suggested me to prepare similar work about contemporaries – acquaintances of Т. G. Shevchenko. 18 years have passed and I have collected necessary materials offered now to an inquisitive reader.

I hope this work to some extent will bring us into a circle of familiar bibliophiles or simply decent bookworms, whose names remained well-known to descendants. This why I think it can be useful at the most unexpected turns of a culturological key of the Ukrainian and Russian history.

Jacob Berdichevsky

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