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TIKHON OF ZADONSK, Saint (1724-1783). Raznye razmyshleniia i perevody s ellinogrecheskogo. [Various Meditations and Translations from the Greek.] Moscow: at the Synod Press, 1837.
12° (186 x 120mm). One folding table. (Title lightly browned.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label, the sides with a super ex libris incorporating the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle and St Andrew's cross, edges gilt (corners rubbed, some wear at the spine). Provenance: ?Nicholas I of Russia (binding) -- Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich (1827-1892; bookplate; ink shelf-mark).
KONSTANTIN NIKOLAEVICH'S COPY, AND PROBABLY FIRST NICHOLAS I'S COPY: the super ex libris incorporating St. Andrew's cross is found on other books attributed to Nicholas I's library at the Winter Palace. His son, Grand Duke Konstantin, was a great ally of Alexander II in his emancipation of the serfs. 'Tikhon is the first Russian ecclesiastical writer who can be called "modern"'; he is 'linked by every fibre of his being with the Russian tradition... there is in him that solid and natural character, that nearness to nature, that "soil" for which Dostoevsky himself expressed his longing through the tortuous and passionate minds and destinies of Ivan or Dimitry Karamazov' (Gorodetzky). Gorodetzky, Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Inspirer of Dostoevsky, p.236.
12° (186 x 120mm). One folding table. (Title lightly browned.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label, the sides with a super ex libris incorporating the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle and St Andrew's cross, edges gilt (corners rubbed, some wear at the spine). Provenance: ?Nicholas I of Russia (binding) -- Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich (1827-1892; bookplate; ink shelf-mark).
KONSTANTIN NIKOLAEVICH'S COPY, AND PROBABLY FIRST NICHOLAS I'S COPY: the super ex libris incorporating St. Andrew's cross is found on other books attributed to Nicholas I's library at the Winter Palace. His son, Grand Duke Konstantin, was a great ally of Alexander II in his emancipation of the serfs. 'Tikhon is the first Russian ecclesiastical writer who can be called "modern"'; he is 'linked by every fibre of his being with the Russian tradition... there is in him that solid and natural character, that nearness to nature, that "soil" for which Dostoevsky himself expressed his longing through the tortuous and passionate minds and destinies of Ivan or Dimitry Karamazov' (Gorodetzky). Gorodetzky, Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Inspirer of Dostoevsky, p.236.
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