Title: [Ukazatelʹ kli͡uchevykh znakov]
Description: This individual volume lacks all author, title, and publication information, but constitutes the third volume and index to an unknown 3 volume grammar and reader of Chinese published in Russia not later than the Russian spelling reform of 1918. The volume consists primarily of an index of the 214 Chinese radical signs and their derivatives, keyed to their appearances in the first two volumes of the work, and followed by several tables and lists of Chinese vocabulary accompanied by Russian transliterations and translations. Pages 76-78 include Russian and Chinese errata lists for the first two volumes. From the errata lists it can be concluded that vv. 1-2 were individually paginated. Volume 1 contained at least 893 pages; volume 2 contained at least 1069 pages. The printing style is different and the print quality superior to that generally featured in publications by the Vostochnyĭ institut (Vladivostok, Russia) in the period ca. 1899-1910, implying that the place of publication may more likely have been St. Petersburg.
Subjects: Chinese language, Textbooks for foreign speakers, Russian, Readers, Transliteration