PALYAEV M.I. (1842-1899) Staroe zhitye: Ocherki i rasskazi o bivshikh obriadakh, obichayakh i poriadkakh v ustriystve domashney i obshestvennoy zhizni [Essays and stories about ceremonies, customs and rites of life in a former times]. SPB.: tip. A.S. Suvorin, 1892.
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250300
- [4], 319 p.; 22,4x15,5 cm.
In a half-leather binding of the period, press gilding on the spine. In very good condition.
A lifetime edition of the writer and journalist Mikhail Ivanovich Pylyaev (1842-1899) with engaging stories and anecdotes of 18th - early 19th century St. Petersburg life.
Of list of contents:
- How they ate in the olden time;
- Gambling in the olden time;
- Fashions and fashionistas of the olden time;
- Old-fashioned old men, sanctimonious person and fools.
Bibliography: Soc. no. 3909; Fecula. №2823