KONDAKOV NIKODIM PAVLOVICH (1844-1925) Essays and notes on the history of medieval art and culture.

KONDAKOV NIKODIM PAVLOVICH (1844-1925) Essays and notes on the history of medieval art and culture.
Prague: ed. Czech Academy of arts
and Sciences, 1929. - [3], III, 455 p.: Il., 1 p. Il.; 27х20 5 cm. In a composite binding of the time. The
publisher’s cover is preserved in the binding. Stamp ‘Reading room of the Russian hearth, Prague’ and
‘Library of the Committee of Soviet citizens’ on the title page.
The ‘Russian hearth’ was opened in Prague in 1925 by initiative and due to direct assistance of the daughter
of the Czechoslovak President Alicia Masaryk. Its mission was to help refugees from Russia who emigrated
from the country after the October revolution. The program was aimed not so much at assimilation
as at the preservation and development of their own culture, science and art. Countess Sophia Vladimirovna
Panina, one of the first Russian feminists and a member of liberal and charitable movements, took an
active part in the work of the institution.