MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. Russia, 1914. File in French with typescript letter signed by L. (or A.) Daeff) on the letterhead of the Ministry of Public Instruction in St. Petersburg, dated January 18, 1914, transmitting an article on education in Russia as well as a Easter story Dans les marais , from our northern explorer, Monsieur Nossilof . 49 unbound numbered pages, typescript on the rectos, illustrated on the versos with postcards, a lithographed portrait of Count Dimitri Tolstoy (p. 30), a photo portrait of Count Délianoff (p. 32), a table of the Ministry's largest expenditures year by year, between 1904 and 1913 (p.39). In-folio format.

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