Estate libraries of Tambov Governorate in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century

We analyze the formation of library collections estates of Tambov Governorate in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century. The relevance of the chosen problem is determined by the importance of updating knowledge about the library and estate culture of the Russian province. The novelty of the work lies in the formation of new conclusions about the problem of development and fate of libraries of individual owners, the importance of manor collections for the information environment of the post-reform period, the introduction of new data on the book collections of Tambov owners. It is shown that due to the lack of reliable information about the pre-revolutionary collections of individual owners verification of the appearance history of individual publications in the estates occurs on fragmentary data. Therefore, the most promising form of book culture study is the work on the systematization of the region collections, the creation of new and additions to existing collections of Tambov books. We study book collection of Karaulskoye estate of Chicherins, the Pavlovskoye manor of Volkonsky, analyze the literature composition of the library of Glazkovo estate of Mansurov family, book collection of Sosnovskoye estate of Benckendorff, reveal the joint books library of Leonid Vasilievich Voeikov and Dmitriy Vasilievich Polenov in Naryshkinskaya library of the city of Tambov. It is proved that in the second half of the 19th – early 20th century in the governorate was created a number of interesting books collections reflecting the unique documents on the history of Russia and foreign countries, the unique literature of foreign publishers. On the basis of a number of noble book collections were created public libraries, which greatly contributed to the development of public education. For some owners, the gathered collections were a source of knowledge in the social and economic modernization of the estate, allowing them to actively develop their households.

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