DOLGORUKAYA, NATALIA (1714–1771) Svoeruchnye zapiski knyagini Natal’i Borisovny Dolgorukoy, docheri g. fel’dmarshala, grafa Borisa Petrovicha Sheremeteva ['Autograph Memoirs of Princess Natalya Borisovna Dolgorukaya, Daughter of Field Marshal Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetev'] / O-vo lyubiteley drevney pis’mennosti. St Petersburg: Sirius, 1913.

52 pp., 2 portraits, 2 facsimiles; 25 × 19.5 cm. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Good condition. Some wear, creasing and soiling to the wrappers, rear wrapper detached. Princess Natalya Borisovna Dolgorukaya (née Countess Sheremeteva; after taking the veil, nun Nektariya; 1714–1771) was a noted 18th-century memoirist and one of the first Russian women writers. In 1767 she composed her Zapiski for her eldest son Mikhail and his children. They were first published by her grandson I.M. Dolgorukov in 1810 in the journal Drug yunoshestva, edited by Maksim Nevzorov, and gained wide popularity among readers and historians for their insights into the reigns of Peter II and Anna Ioannovna. The first scholarly edition of these celebrated memoirs, published from the original manuscript with preservation of the original orthography, under the auspices of the Imperial Society of Lovers of Ancient Writing and at the expense of Count S.D. Sheremetev. As with other Sheremetev publications, issued in a small print run.