On the History of Alexander Lvovich Berthier-Delagarde’s Private Collections (With Reference to Documentary Materials)
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2016

The article explores the events behind the donation of the collection of books and manuscripts belonging to a prominent scholar of Crimea Alexander Lvovich Berthier-Delagarde to the Central Museum of Taurida, as well as how part of his numismatic and ethnographic collection was sold to a private owner. The analysis is made with reference to unpublished documents of central (Moscow, Saint Petersburg) and regional (Simferopol, Odessa) archives. The author refers to the epistolary legacy of I. A. L