Valishevskii [Waliszewski], K[azimir] [Kazimierz Klement] (1849 - 1935)	Petr Velikii. Kniga tret´ia. Delo. Reprintnoe vosproizvedenie izdaniia 1911 goda., M., SP 'IKPA' 1911/1990., 411, b/w ill, plates FINE, REPRINT OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION	€25,00

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8 vo, original buckram binding, better reproductions with captions in red color. This volume deals with Narva and Poltava battles and Peter the Great´s foreign policy. Kazimierz Klemens Waliszewski was a Polish author of history, who studied in Warsaw and Paris, and wrote primarily about Russian history. Waliszewski´s books were printed in Russia prior to 1917 in larger runs on better paper, bound in expensive elaborate bindings and included valuable pictorial material from XVII-XVIII centuries. He was very popular among middle and upper classes reading audience. Shortly after October Revolution his books were withdrawn from all public libraries and confiscated from publishing houses´ storages, most of books were burned or sent to pulp mills. Starting from mid 1920s and till late 1970s his books were banned for sale in antiquarian shops. Despite all these severe measures Waliszewski still had a greater reading audience in the USSR, many of his books being sold on a black market for exorbitant prices. All Waliszewski´s books were reprinted in Russia in 1990s by various publishers and became very popular among new generation of readers. Born in Poland, but a long resident in France, Waliszewski wrote a detailed, scholarly works covering nearly three centuries of Russian history: from Ivan the Terrible to the end of the nineteenth century. He began research in 1870, and devoted over thirty years of work in libraries and archives in Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and Saint Petersburg. Several of his works written in French were translated into other languages. Waliszewski, also researched Polish history, and his book, Poland, the Unknown, offers a defence of the country's history against hostile Russian and German interpretations.This book was never published in Russian translation. As a man of letters, Waliszewski expressed his intention to introduce Joseph Conrad to the Polish public in 1903, after the two had exchanged a number of letters. Selected books Bibliography: Marysieńka, Marie de la Grange D'Arquien (Queen of Poland), 1898 Peter the Great, 1898 The Romance of an Empress, Catherine II of Russia, (translated from French) 1900 Peter the Great, 1904 A History of Russian Literature, 1915 Poland, the Unknown, 1919 Sees: Snyder, Louis Leo (1967). The making of modern man: from the Renaissance to the present. Van Nostrand; Nevins, Allan The Gateway to History (1938) , p. 369; Krzyżanowski, Ludwik, ed. Joseph Conrad: centennial essays. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America.(1960), p. 121.