Zaprosy naroda i obiazannosti intelligentsii v oblasti prosveshcheniia i vospitaniia (People's Needs and Duties of the Intelligentsia in Upbringing and Education)

S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Tipografiia I. N. Skorokhodova, 1895. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition, greatly enlarged; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4; pp. [7], VI-XXIII, [1], 1-547, [5]; rebound in green buckram and 3/4 red leatherette; a few rubbed spots to edges; glue residue to title page left margin from an early repair; two previous owners' stamps - Russian-American emigre author and editor I. Dziomenko and Pierre Nicolaeff; very good condition.Aleksandr Stepanovich Prugavin (1850 - 1920) was a revolutionary, Narodnik, publicist, ethnographer, and historian. He dedicated a big part of his life to studying the Old Believers' Movement and sectarianism. After the October Revolution, for supporting and collaborating with the White Army, he was arrested and sent to prison, where he died from typhus. He authored numerous articles and books, the current work one of his earlier writings.