1909 · 22864 — S.-Petersburg, Izdaniye avtora, Sklad izdaniya: Knigoizdatel?stvo M.M. Gutzatsa, 1909-1910. 8vo (24 x 17 cm). 600 b/w illustrations. 96 (2); 158 (2) p. Contemporary half-cloth bindings, marbled covers, original covers bound in. - Russian language. Scholarly guide, applied towards learning the Russian language in those schools, where children can not speak Russian upon acceptance. - Contents (Vol. 1): Study book with more complicated reading and writing exercises. - Contents (Vol. 2): Reading study book with educational texts including zoological, geographical and historical essays (Christianization of Kievan Rus?, Prince Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, conquest of Siberia, French invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon in Moscow and his fleeing from Russia. Text on and pictures of Michael I of Russia and his accession to the throne, Catherine II of Russia, Peter the Great, his wars with the Swedish and the foundation of Petersburg, Alexander Suvorov, Alexander I of Russia, Alexander II of Russia, Mikhail Kutuzov, Nicholas I of Russia, Alexander III of Russia). - Mikhail Vol?per was a famous educator and writer. He was a Lithuanian Jew born in Vilnius. Vol?per?s most prominent work was "Russkaya rech. Uchebnoe rukovodstvo, primenyonnoye k obucheniyu russkomu yazyku v tekh shkolakh, v kotorykh deti pri postuplenii ne umeyut govorit? po-russki" which he worked on for 13 years. The book is focusing on teaching Russian to foreign minors. Each with 2 stamps of a library on the original cover and title page and 1 stamp on the front endpapers.
