P.M. Maykov — Ivan Ivanovich Betskoy. Opyt ego biografiyi

S.-Peterburg Tipografiya T-va “Obshchestvennaya Polza”, Bolshaya Podyacheskaya, 39. Year: 1904. Original edition, quite unique, although ebacked, of detailed biography. Betskoy was one of the secret forces behind the throne of Catherine the Great, responsible for the government education, in all spheres, that was expected to generate (code N-49)the new people of Russia, on a par with and perhaps even in advance of the Western European peoples. An ambitious project that still arouses discussion. (code B-305)