Autograph. Elpidifor Barsov. Bogatyrskoe word in the list of the beginning of the XVII century. Appendix to the XL ...

Autograph. Elpidifor Barsov. Bogatyrskoe word in the list of the beginning of the XVII century. Appendix to the XL volume of notes of the Imperial Academy of Sciences No. 5.
St. Petersburg. Printing house of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1881, 27 p. Hardcover, native cover pasted, size 16 x 22.5 cm. Good condition, split between pages 2 and 3, title pasted, gift inscription from the author on the title. 

Elpidyphoros V. Barsov (1 [13] Nov 1836 — 2 [15] April, 1917) — Russian literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist, collector and researcher of old Russian literature, archaeographer, corresponding member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1873), member of the Imperial Moscow archaeological society (1874), actual state councillor (1885). 

Born on 1 (13) November 1836 in the village of Loginovo Cherepovets district Novgorod province in the family of a village priest.

He graduated from the Ustyuzhensk theological school, then the Novgorod theological Seminary, from where in 1857 he entered the St. Petersburg theological Academy and graduated in 1861.

In 1862-1870, he was a teacher of logic and psychology at the Olonets theological Seminary in Petrozavodsk. In March 1867, in Petrozavodsk, he met with the Olonets "voplenitsa" Irina Andreevna Fedosova; for three years, E. V. Barsov wrote down lamentations that made up three volumes of his book "Lamentations of the Northern territory" (Moscow, 1872-1886), awarded the gold medal of the Russian Geographical society and the Uvarov prize.

In 1870 he was invited by the curator of the Department of manuscripts of the Rumyantsev Museum by A. E. Viktorov in Moscow, and worked as the Keeper of manuscripts of the Russian and Slavic branches, then a librarian Chertkovskaya library, then the Keeper, and later a librarian Dashkovsky ethnographic Museum.

Since March 12, 1870 — full member Of the society of lovers of Russian literature at Moscow University. After moving to Moscow, Barsov was also accepted as a member of the society of Russian history and antiquities. He was its Secretary for more than a quarter of a century — from 1881 to 1907; he was the editor of the society's "Readings". Barsov's scientific activity was focused on the study of old Russian writing and everyday life.by the number of his works, Barsov belongs to the most productive researchers of old Russian writing of his time.

In addition to individual works, he made many different reports, provided prefaces to many written monuments of antiquity and folk art. A complete list of what he wrote is given in Vengerov (vol. II) and in D. V. Tsvetaev's pamphlet "a note on the works of E. Barsov" (Moscow, 1887).

A large number of materials that Barsov enriched science, he drew from his collection of manuscripts, the purchase of which spent all his money. Barsov managed to make one of the most significant paleographic collections. Barsov collected works of old believer literature and manuscripts on the history of Church reform. They made a description of the manuscript collection Wigelekeko the Pomeranian monastery of Olonets province.

He collected a unique collection of 500 ancient Russian manuscripts, stored in the GIM and RSL.

In the 1870s, on the initiative of Barsov and the mayor of Cherepovets, I. A. Milyutin, a Museum was opened in Cherepovets. Barsov donated part of his collection to the organization of the Museum and developed its Charter. He also gave the Museum of antiquities of the Moscow archaeological society old head ornaments and accessories of Russian costume.

The collection of Barsov was as systematic as the collection of V. M. Undolsky, and in number it was close to the pogodinsky Ancient repository. It was one of the best palaeographic collections at that time, including about five hundred manuscripts on the history of the schism and about a thousand old believer manuscripts. The collection had a large collection of portraits of dissenters.

The collection of literature and manuscripts by E. V. Barsov was awarded the Uvarov prize. In 1914, Barsov gave his manuscript collection (2728 manuscripts of the XV—XIX centuries) and old printed books to the Historical Museum for fifty-five thousand rubles.

Initially, Barsov rented an apartment on the Patriarch's ponds, which was visited by a writer and journalist V. A. Gilyarovsky, who was close to him; then Barsov settled in his own house on Shabolovka (9), which was given to him by N. I. Pastukhov. 

He died on April 2, 1917 in Moscow.