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VG-ex-library copy with bookplate and call number label on spine. minor soiling to boards. White boards with red lettering and gilt design. xi, 290 pages. Contents: I. Present at the creation--1. Leipzig and the founding of the Russian Academy 1705-31--2. Fledgling historican at the Academy 1731-3--II. Charting Siberia--3. A land and its past 1733-43--III. Stormy decades at the Academy--4. Historiographer 1743-8--5. Debate on "Russian" origins 1749-55--6. Monthly compositions 1755-64--IV. Calm and creativity in Moscow--7. Educator and Academy deputy 1765-8--9. Archivist, historian, publicist 1769-83--Epilogue: Müller and Russian historiography.
