Grigorovich, Dmitrii Vasil´evich (1822 - 1900) Prokhozhii. (Sviatochnyi rasskaz). Sochinennie Dmitriia Grigorovicha. Izdanie vtoroe. S.Peterburg, 1875. 64 p. €275
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8 vo, publisher´s wrs. with original woodcut, 3 original woodcuts by Mikeshin (?) in text.On front cover 'Prokhozhii. Narodnoe izdanie.No.6.Tsiena 10 k.' On back cover imprint 'Narodnyia izdaniia' and complete catalog of 'Komitet gramotnosti' publications, supplemented with descriptive text on the goals of publishing house. VERY GOOD.

All publications of 'Komitet Gramotnosti [...]' were read into pulp already by early 1900s and are extremely rare even in Russia.

'Grigorovich was born in Simbirsk, where his family were members of the landed gentry. His father was Russian and his mother French. From 1832 to 1835 he studied at several French and German private schools in Moscow. He then did coursework at the Nikolayev Engineering Institute, where he made friends with his fellow student Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and the Imperial Academy of Arts until 1840. Grigorovich said that it was through his friendship with Dostoyevsky that he first became interested in literature.-'Wikipedia'

Not in Jeffrey Brooks Collections or Boston Public Library Collection of Russian Pulp Fiction of XIX and XX centuries

See: Brooks, Jeffrey When Russia learned to read : literacy and popular literature, 1861-1917 [...], Prugavin,A.S.Zaprosy naroda i obiazannosti intelligentsii [...], Kaidanova, O.Ocherki po istorii narodnogo obrazovaniia v Rossii [...] Berlin, 1938, Barenbaum, I. E. Narodnye zhurnaly A.F.Pogosskogo [...] // Revoliutsionnaia situatsiia v Rossii v 1859-1861 gg. M., 1970