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1897 — Very Good Russian Original cloth. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Russian. Apprx. 1200 p., many lithographic plates. Almanakh-ejegodnik, 1897 god. Almanac - yearbook for 1897. A calendar and a collection of information useful to everyone in daily life. On the front cover with colored embossing: the title of the publication in the ornamental frame and the annual calendar with the indication of the shrines. The back cover is embossed with black: a multiplication table and a list of provinces, regions and counties with major cities. On the spine there is a color embossing: a geometric ornament, the name of the publication and the year. The third year of the publication of the almanac, the last one was published in 1902. The purpose of the almanac was to create for the reader a permanent desk book containing all possible indications of various cases from everyday life. The publication contains an image of the family tree and the Family Chronicle, in which it is necessary to fill in the columns (they're not signed, not written on paper, empty): "Birthday", "Epiphany", "Otkrytie from the chest", "1st tooth", "1st word", " Step "," Smallpox vaccination "," Family holidays ", etc. Special sections include a civil, eternal, hunting, photographic, financial calendar, characteristics of the zodiac signs. A large number of tables, diagrams, advertisements, information, useful for each - in the field of astronomy, geography, history, statistics, medicine, usual recipes, book reviews, obituaries; theaters, opera buildings, circuses, many maps, hospitals, all banks, government buildings, passport info for citizens, times for transportation, railways, economy, architecture, history of the art, special days and religious holidays and calendars of all minorities such Rabbanic Jews, Muslims, Armanien Gregorians, Evangelic Lutherans, Rimski Catholics, etc. and many advertisements. For bibliographers and historians, this calendar is of great interest. "Almanac" won popularity in the Russian society and at the first all-Russian exhibition of printing business in 1895 in St. Petersburg was awarded the Great Silver Medal. The book contains historical and geographical essays in Moscow and St. Petersburg. And also address-calendar and reference department On these cities. There are no portraits of Nikolai and Alexandra Feodorovna.