Mezhov, V. I. Bibliography Of Asia. Index of books and articles about Asia in Russian and only books in foreign ...

Mezhov, V. I. Bibliography Of Asia. Index of books and articles about Asia in Russian and only books in foreign languages, concerning Russia's relations with Asian States. 3 vols 1-3.
Saint Petersburg: Type. V. bezobrazova and Comp., 1891.

Vol. 1: East in General, China, Manjuriya, Mongolia, Dzungaria, Korea, Tibet, Japan, Indo-China, India, Persia, Baluchistan, Turkey, Arabia, Afghanistan,

Central Asian khanates and Russian possessions in Central Asia. II, III, 230 c.

Vol. 2: Foreigners of Finnish, Tatar and Mongolian origin living in Russia, Caucasian foreigners. 231-389, VII, [2], 48 c.

Vol. 3: VII, 49-257 c.

25.9 x 17.5 cm. In a composite owner's binding of the era with the preservation of all publishing covers. In good condition, stamp of the Polish library.

Vladimir Izmailovich Mezhov (17 [29] may 1830, Saratov province — 17 [29] may 1894, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian bibliographer. His bibliographic works number more than one hundred volumes; they are an extensive set of literature on many branches of knowledge and give an idea of the bibliography of the history of Russia, its science and culture for a significant period of time.

Vladimir Izmailovich Mezhov was born on may 17, 1830 in the Saratov province in a poor noble family. His father-staff doctor Ismail Timofeyevich Mezhov-died three months after the birth of his son.

In 1840, when Mezhov was 10 years old, He, with the assistance of the poet V. A. Zhukovsky, was admitted to the Gatchina orphan Institute, which prepared officials for the civil service and gave mainly legal education.

After graduating from the Institute, in 1851, at his own request, he was enrolled in the Public library, where he began working as a Registrar. Mezhov's bibliographic activity began in 1856 with the compilation of quarterly lists of new books for the magazine " Otechestvennye Zapiski "with a view to their further publication in the "Bibliographic lists" of Otechestvennye Zapiski"", when A. A. Krayevsky asked the Imperial Public library, which received a mandatory copy, to compile such lists. Later Mezhov also collaborated with the magazines "Russian conversation", "Bibliographic notes", "Journal of the Ministry of internal Affairs", "Book Bulletin", "Philological notes".

Mezhov not only organized a timely accounting of newly published books and periodicals, but also in 1858, he began to schedule articles from all periodicals received by the Imperial public library, and combined these materials with the bibliography of books and periodicals, which he had maintained since 1856. This combined file of all newly published books and articles became the basis for publishing cross-Border General and various thematic bibliographies.

In the 60s of the XIX century Mezhov worked mainly on the bibliography of geography, statistics and Ethnography (which he did for more than 20 years), the bibliography of public education, law and the peasant question.

In the 70s of the XIX century, he began to publish a bibliography of tax, labor and Jewish issues, worked on trade bibliography (catalogues of Bazunov, Isakov and Glazunov), and started creating a multi-volume (25-30 volumes) index of magazine and newspaper articles published in the first half of the XIX century.

In the 80's and early 90's Mezhov began working on the "Russian historical bibliography" (at the expense of the gold industrialist I. M. Sibiryakov) and on the "Bibliography of Asia" (on behalf of the General staff). Along with this, he published bibliographic monographs on statistics, "charity" and a unique bibliography "Pushkiniana".

At the request of the Governor-General of Turkestan K. P. von Kaufman Mezhov in 1867 started compiling a bibliography of literature on Turkestan, the so-called "Turkestan collection of essays and articles regarding Central Asian and Turkestan region in particular", covering all newspaper and magazine publications relating to Central Asia and adjoining countries, as well as scientific papers on the same subject by Russian and foreign authors. Mezhov was engaged in this work until 1887.

Vladimir Izmailovich Mezhov died in 1894.