OLDENBURG, S.S. (1888–1940) Imperator Nikolay II (opyt biografii) ['Emperor Nicholas II: An Attempt at a Biography'] / communicated by the Union of Zealots for the Memory of Emperor Nicholas II // Russkaya letopis’. Book 7. Paris, [1925].

VIII, 223 pp., 4 plates; 26 × 18.5 cm. Contemporary composite binding. Wear to the binding, traces of glue on the spine, minor soiling and foxing to the text block. Binder’s label on the endpaper: ‘Pereplyol A. Nadviniychny’ (in pre-reform orthography). Aleksandr Dem’yanovich Nadviniychny was a participant in the White movement (Armed Forces of South Russia), a feldsher. This copy is a convolute of articles from Book 7 of ‘Russkaya letopis’ (without the general preface and the final article). It opens with S.S. Oldenburg’s essay ‘Imperator Nikolay II. Opyt biografii’, brought by the author up to the year 1904. Also included are the articles: P.P. Stremoukhov, ‘Imperator Nikolay II i russkoe obshchestvo v kontse ego tsarstvovaniya v osveshchenii inostrantsev’; ‘Ubiystvo Tsarskoy Semi v Ekaterinburge (po dannym predvaritel’nogo sledstviya)’; ‘Pamyati Nikolaya Alekseevicha Sokolova’; P.S. Botkin, ‘Chto bylo sdelano dlya spaseniya Imperatora Nikolaya II’.