GORSKII, Aleksandr Vasilevich. Istoricheskoe opisanie Sviato- Troitskiia Sergievy Lavry. [Historical Account of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery.] Moscow: I. Efimov, 1890.
GORSKII, Aleksandr Vasilevich. Istoricheskoe opisanie Sviato- Troitskiia Sergievy Lavry. [Historical Account of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery.] Moscow: I. Efimov, 1890.

细节
GORSKII, Aleksandr Vasilevich. Istoricheskoe opisanie Sviato- Troitskiia Sergievy Lavry. [Historical Account of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery.] Moscow: I. Efimov, 1890.

Two parts in one volume, 8° (269 x 176mm). 4 plates, including the photographic view and folding plate. (Margins lightly yellowed, folding plate with short tear at folds.) Full burgundy morocco, spine gilt, upper side stamped with a wide gilt border, lower side stamped in blind, edges gilt, white moiré-style endpapers (spine and upper side evenly faded to brown, front joint repaired, corners rubbed). Provenance: Nicholas II of Russia (bookplate) -- 'Printed in Russia' (small import stamp) -- Hammer Galleries, New York (label for 'Russian Imperial Exhibit').

NICHOLAS II'S COPY of this history of the spiritual centre of Orthodox Russia.