Neshchastnyi︠a︡ prikli︠u︡chenīi︠a︡ Vasilīi︠a︡ Baranshchikova, mi︠e︡shchanina Nizhni︠a︡go Novagoroda v trekh chasti︠a︡kh svi︠e︡ta
Subtitle: V Ameriki︠e︡, Azīi i Evropi︠e︡, s 1780 po 1787 god
Edition: Vtoroe izdanīe s dopolnenīem i figurami.
Publisher: Pechatano s dozvolenīi︠a︡ ukaznago v tipografi Vilʹkovskago i Galchenkova.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: B Sanktpeterburg{250}ie 1787 goda
Language: rus
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Russian Adventure stories; Fiction; Description and travel
Notes: Title page and imprint transliterated from the Russian.

Date of publication printed before name of printer on title page.

Probably written by C.K.P. [transliterated as S.K.R.] whose initials appear on the title page of the first edition, published the same year. A copy of the latter, long believed non-existent, was found in 1834. See: Izvetsii︠a︡. (Moskva, 1934. no. 264, p. 4, col. 6; and British Museum catalogue, v. 10, p. 40.e.)

The first edition was also printed in Saint Petersburg by Vilʹkovskago i Galchenkova in the same year with only 72 pages, without the travelogue of Turkey, and without the folded frontispiece plate.

"Pribavlenīe, zakli︠u︡chai︠u︡shchee v sebi︠e︡ opisanīe T︠S︡arʹgrada i turet︠s︡kikh nachalʹnikov dukhovnykh, voinskikh i grazhdanskikh", p. [81]-129, has divisional title page.

Fictionalized account concerning the travels of Russian merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Vasilii Baranshchikov, whose voyages took him to Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Turkey, and finally back to Russia.

Signatures: A⁸ (A1 verso blank) B⁸ V⁸ G⁸ D⁸ (D8 verso blank) E⁸ (E2 missigned E) Zh⁸ Z⁸ chi1 (chi1 verso blank)

Includes a folded frontispiece plate of allegorical figures bound to face p. [3]

Sopikov, V.S. Opyt' rossiiskoi bibliografii (Izd. 2), 8986.

Purchase; 1980; 81-01.