ZHURAVLEV, Andrei (1751-1813). Polnoe istoricheskoe izvestie o Drevnikh Strigol'nikakh. [A Complete Historical Account of the Old Believers]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1799.
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ZHURAVLEV, Andrei (1751-1813). Polnoe istoricheskoe izvestie o Drevnikh Strigol'nikakh. [A Complete Historical Account of the Old Believers]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1799.

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ZHURAVLEV, Andrei (1751-1813). Polnoe istoricheskoe izvestie o Drevnikh Strigol'nikakh. [A Complete Historical Account of the Old Believers]. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1799.

8° (203 x 125mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece and 11 full page engravings. (Plates soiled, a very few with manuscript captions). Contemporary calf (extremities repaired). Provenance: Contemporary owner (inscription) -- 'printed in Russia' (stamp).

Enlarged and corrected third edition of Zhuravlev's popular history of the Old-Believers. It was published just 5 years after the first, and remained the definitive history of the schism until the mid-19th century. SK 2279; Sopikov 4409.
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