Israel Perlstein collection relating to Imperial Russia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Titles of honor and nobility; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Calligraphy; Coronation; History; Printing; Land grants
Description: Russian land grant charters; Russian and Swedish imperial patents of nobility; Pal'menbach family papers; invitations, menus, programs, press passes, and other memorabilia of journalist Mikhail Andreevich Zaguliaev from the 1896 coronation of Emperor Nicholas II; and other certificates, documents, and printed material.  Much of the material is noted for exemplifying Russian calligraphy and illustration and Slavic printing methods from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Israel Perlstein, 1897-1975.

Rare book dealer.  Emigrated to New York, N.Y., in 1920.

Collection material chiefly in Russian and French.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009207