А. В. Засыпкин The collections of the Military Historical Library of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation contain at least 2014 copies from the personal library of the lawyer, one of the founders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. Nabokov's book collection, estimated at 10,000 copies, was considered lost by researchers. A large number of books entered the Library of the Military Affairs Auditorium at the Petrograd District Commissariat for Military Affairs (today the Information Historical and Scientific Center – the Military Historical Library of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) from 1918 to 1921. Due to the lack of bibliographic descriptions and consideration of book features (book signs, inscriptions, bindings, marginalia), less than three hundred copies were known by August 2024. Based on them, the owner's collection was allocated, and the book monument collection “Library of V.D. Nabokov” was formed in the register of book monuments according to the socially significant criterion. A detailed study of the collection led to the discovery of more than 1,700 books with V. D. Nabokov’s ownership characteristics. Information about the availability of these copies, their features, and sources of replenishment are adduced for the first time. The purpose of the article is to introduce into scientific circulation information about the existence of the owner's collection “Library of V.D. Nabokov” in the possessions of the Military Historical Library of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The data provided may be useful to bibliologists and library scientists, historians of legal science, and Nabokov philologists.
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владельческие коллекции