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NIKITENKO, A.V. (1804–1877) Moya povest’ o samom sebe i o tom, ‘chemu svidetel’ v zhizni byl’: Zapiski i dnevnik (1804–1877 gg.) ['My Story About Myself and About That 'Which I Witnessed in Life': Notes and Diary (1804–1877)']. — 2nd ed., revised and expanded from the manuscript, edited with notes and index by M.K. Lemke: [in 2 vols.]. St Petersburg: Knigoizd-vo M.V. Pirozhkova, 1904–1905.

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NIKITENKO, A.V. (1804–1877) Moya povest’ o samom sebe i o tom, ‘chemu svidetel’ v zhizni byl’: Zapiski i dnevnik (1804–1877 gg.) ['My Story About Myself and About That 'Which I Witnessed in Life': Notes and Diary (1804–1877)']. — 2nd ed., revised and expanded from the manuscript, edited with notes and index by M.K. Lemke: [in 2 vols.]. St Petersburg: Knigoizd-vo M.V. Pirozhkova, 1904–1905.
NIKITENKO, A.V. (1804–1877) Moya povest’ o samom sebe i o tom, ‘chemu svidetel’ v zhizni byl’: Zapiski i dnevnik (1804–1877 gg.) ['My Story About Myself and About That 'Which I Witnessed in Life': Notes and Diary (1804–1877)']. — 2nd ed., revised and expanded from the manuscript, edited with notes and index by M.K. Lemke: [in 2 vols.]. St Petersburg: Knigoizd-vo M.V. Pirozhkova, 1904–1905.
NIKITENKO, A.V. (1804–1877) Moya povest’ o samom sebe i o tom, ‘chemu svidetel’ v zhizni byl’: Zapiski i dnevnik (1804–1877 gg.) ['My Story About Myself and About That 'Which I Witnessed in Life': Notes and Diary (1804–1877)']. — 2nd ed., revised and expanded from the manuscript, edited with notes and index by M.K. Lemke: [in 2 vols.]. St Petersburg: Knigoizd-vo M.V. Pirozhkova, 1904–1905.
NIKITENKO, A.V. (1804–1877) Moya povest’ o samom sebe i o tom, ‘chemu svidetel’ v zhizni byl’: Zapiski i dnevnik (1804–1877 gg.) ['My Story About Myself and About That 'Which I Witnessed in Life': Notes and Diary (1804–1877)']. — 2nd ed., revised and expanded from the manuscript, edited with notes and index by M.K. Lemke: [in 2 vols.]. St Petersburg: Knigoizd-vo M.V. Pirozhkova, 1904–1905.
NIKITENKO, A.V. (1804–1877) Moya povest’ o samom sebe i o tom, ‘chemu svidetel’ v zhizni byl’: Zapiski i dnevnik (1804–1877 gg.) ['My Story About Myself and About That 'Which I Witnessed in Life': Notes and Diary (1804–1877)']. — 2nd ed., revised and expanded from the manuscript, edited with notes and index by M.K. Lemke: [in 2 vols.]. St Petersburg: Knigoizd-vo M.V. Pirozhkova, 1904–1905.
Vol. 1. — [8], II, 632 pp., 1 portrait; Vol. 2 (1905). — [8], 611 pp.; 26 × 18 cm. — (Istoricheskiy otdel; no. 12). With a portrait of the author. 2 vols., publisher’s printed wrappers. Good condition. Some wear to the wrappers, tears and small losses at the edges and spines, ownership inscriptions, vol. 2 unopened. Memoirs of the literary critic, historian of literature, memoirist, academician of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Privy Councillor Alexander Vasilyevich Nikitenko (1804–1877). A valuable and unique source for the study of Russian society, literature and culture in the mid-19th century. The author writes about Pushkin’s duel with Dantès, N. Grech and A. Herzen, balls and public moods, the content of newspapers and journals of the period, evenings at A. Vyazemsky’s, war and peace, and much else.