Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Memoirs Ivan D. Sytin
5. By Way of Introduction 3
6. Parting with Sharapov and the Birth of Mediator 15
7. The Demise of the Itinerant Peddlers 27
8. How Russian Word was Born 37
9. Acquiring the Complete Works of L.N. Tolstoy 50
10. Encounters with P.A. Stolypin and Others 58
11. The North 81
12. The All-Russian Council of People’s Deputies 89
13. Meetings with Gorky and Lenin 99
14. Recollections About Sytin by Others
15. Evdokia Ivanovna Sytina and Bersenevka 111
16. Letters from Vlas Doroshevich to Sytin about Editing Russian Word 130
17. Reminiscences about I.D. Sytin 142
18. Notes 165
19. Bibliography 199
20. Index 201