Catalog of the library of Anatoly Fedorovich Cherenin, on Nikolskaya Street, in the house of Count Sheremetyevo, in ...

Catalog of the library of Anatoly Fedorovich Cherenin, on Nikolskaya Street, in the house of Count Sheremetyevo, in Moscow.
Tver. In the printing house of V. V. Arkhangelsk and Comp., 1860. - IV, 96 p. Publisher's cover, reduced format (11.5 x 18 cm). The front part of the cover is missing; the title is dirty, has traces of erased writing in a simple pencil.

[Anatoly Fedorovich Cherenin (June 16 (28), 1826, Kashin, Tver Province — 1892, Moscow)— Russian bookseller, publisher of the magazine "Knizhnik", theorist of book and library science.

In January 1860, on Nikolskaya Street in Moscow, Cherenin opened a private library, which later moved to the Torletsky house on the corner of Rozhdestvenki and Sofiyki Streets. Cherenin's bookstore was also located there. In the summer, a branch was opened at the Poiret dacha on the Petrovsko-Razumovsky Highway.

The library's collection consisted of 1,600 titles of books and 5,500 volumes, including sections on theology, philosophy and pedagogy, political economy and law, history, travel and geography, industry and agriculture, medicine, natural sciences, history and theory of literature, military sciences, fiction and children's literature, and magazines.

The number of subscribers to the library increased from 100 at the beginning of 1860 to 1,000 in 1866, not counting one-time visitors to the reading room. The highest subscription price ("by the first category») it was 16 rubles a year. There was an opportunity to issue a subscription for readers from other cities. Information about new arrivals was reflected in the catalog, the "Bibliographic Leaflet" and the "Knizhnik" magazine, which was sent to the library's subscribers free of charge. The novelty was that the library employees were women, whom Cherenin considered more conscientious than men.

On June 18, 1867, in connection with the arrest of A. F. Cherenin, the bookstore and library were closed, later they passed into the hands of a cousin — M. M. Cherenin, in 1871 they were sold to L. P. Zubcheninova, in the mid-90s of the XIX century they belonged to E. I. Vladimirova.]