A Fundamental Example of Bibliographic Perfectionism

This review summarises the contents of consolidated catalogue by A. I. Razdorsky which contains printed all-subject reports governors-general, governors, and city managers Russian Empire between 1845 1916 (St Petersburg, 2020). The author-compiler this handbook published St Petersburg publisher Dmitry Bulanin describes 2,309 reports, have had limited circulation are preserved mainly in State Historical Archive. book characterises their content substantiates scholarly value as sources information on state various subjects Empire. (handwritten, typed, printed) were official documents that reflected views higher bureaucracy processes taking place political, economic, cultural life country nineteenth early twentieth centuries. is intended a guide amongst vast, poorly studied, highly informative conglomerate reports. from these publications needs to be thoroughly analysed researched at current stage.