Instructions to the Butler Ivan Nemchinov about the management of houses and villages and Regula about horses. How ...

Instructions to the Butler Ivan Nemchinov about the management of houses and villages and Regula about horses. How to keep them, and how diligently to see that they are in good health.
St. PETERSBURG. Printing house of V. S. Balashev. 1881. VIII, 49 p. Hard fabric owner's binding without saving the publisher's cover, landscape format (20.5 x 29.3 cm). The fabric binding is dirty; moderate flipping marks on the first two pages; rare Fox spots; on the top cover of the binding, the series name, issue number and owner's initials [embossed in gold on leather]; inventory number on the flyleaf.  

Series: Monuments of ancient writing. Issue XV (24).

Publication Of The Society Of Lovers Of Monuments Of Ancient Writing.

[Artemiy Petrovich Volynsky (1689 - 27 June [8 July] 1740, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman and diplomat. In 1719-1730, Astrakhan and Kazan Governor. In 1722, he consolidated his position by marrying a cousin of Peter the Great. Since 1738, the Cabinet-Minister of the Empress Anna Ioannovna. The enemy of "Biron". At the head of the circle of nobles, he drew up state reconstruction projects. Executed in this case.

Volynsky's personality has long attracted the attention of historians, biographers, and even novelists. Writers of the late XVIII and early XIX centuries. (for example, Ryleev), considered him a political genius and a patriot Martyr; but with the appearance of new materials on the history of the first half of the XVIII century, a new point of view was established on Volynsky. Its representative was I. I. Shishkin in 1860, in the "Domestic Notes"; but the desire to debunk Volynsky carried him away, he fell into the opposite extreme. 16 years later, a new biography of Volyn Professor D. A. Korsakov appeared, which can be considered a verified work. Also, the image of Volynsky is artistically displayed in the" Ice house " by I. I. Lazhechnikov. There he was very "sanitized": the author presents his "knight of truth", strong, smart, Patriotic, scrupulous in matters of honor, "noble opponent power-hungry personality of a powerful" and also red tape. The real image of him is very different from what is shown in the novel. Catherine II, during her reign, commissioned a study of the Volyn process. After Panin's recommendation to read about the Volynsky case herself, she made a political will. "I advise my son and all my descendants to read the Volynsky case from beginning to end, so that they may see and guard themselves against such a lawless example." Catherine II wrote further that " Volynsky was proud and bold in his actions, but not a traitor, but, on the contrary, a kind and diligent patriot and jealous of the useful corrections of his Fatherland." Volynsky was also a role model for the Decembrists. They loved him as a conspirator, a fighter against tyranny.]