Kurbsky, A. History of the Grand Prince of Moscow (Istoriia o velikom kniaze Moskovskom). First separate edition, 1913. In Russian.

Курбский, Андрей Михайлович (1528-1583). Князя А. М. Курбскаго история о великом князе Московском : (извлечено из «Сочинений князя Курбскаго») / издание Императорской Археографической комиссии. Первое отдельное издание.
С.-Петербург : типография М. А. Александрова, 1913. VIII страниц, 194 столбца, 1 вкладной лист с картой.
Мягкая издательская обложка. Формат 28,5 x 20 см.
Почти все листы не разрезаны, книга не читалась.
Обложка - хорошее: равномерное пожелтение, краевые обломы и мелкие утраты по кромкам, диагональный залом на задней сторонке, потертости у корешка. Блок - очень хорошее: чистый, крепкий, полный, карта осады Казани в наличии.
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Kurbsky, Andrei Mikhailovich (1528-1583). History of the Grand Prince of Moscow : (extracted from "The Works of Prince Kurbsky") / published by the Imperial Archaeographic Commission. First separate edition.
St. Petersburg : M. A. Aleksandrov's Press, 1913. VIII pp., 194 columns, 1 folding plate with map ; 28.5 x 20 cm.
Original publisher's paper wrappers.
An unopened copy: almost all leaves remain unopened, the book has never been read.
Wrappers good: even age-toning, chipping and small losses along the edges, diagonal crease to the rear wrapper, rubbing at the spine ends. Text block very good: clean, firm and complete, with the folding map of the siege of Kazan present.

One of the founding documents of Russian political dissent, here in the scholarly recension of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission, issued separately in 1913 ahead of the Commission's first volume of Kurbsky's collected works of 1914. Prince Andrei Mikhailovich Kurbsky (1528-1583) belonged to the Rurikid house of Yaroslavl, commanded the right wing of the Russian army at the siege of Kazan in 1552, was raised to boyar rank in 1556, and led Russian forces in the opening campaigns of the Livonian War. In April 1564, anticipating the repressions that would become the oprichnina, he crossed to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, becoming the first prominent Russian political emigre. Written in his Volhynian exile around 1573, the History is at once a memoir of the Kazan campaign and the Livonian War, a martyrology of the boyars destroyed by Ivan IV, and a sustained polemical argument that a ruler who abandons counsel becomes a tyrant. Its central device, the contrast between the good early Ivan surrounded by the Chosen Council and the tyrant of the terror years, has shaped every subsequent account of the reign. The Commission's edition presents the text in double columns with a full critical apparatus of variant readings from the manuscript witnesses, manuscript folio numbers in the margins, and a folding map of the siege of Kazan in 1552; the rear wrapper advertises the companion volume of Kurbsky's letters as then in press. Since Edward Keenan's challenge to the attribution in 1971, the text has stood at the centre of one of the most durable controversies in Muscovite studies, which has kept this critical edition in constant scholarly use. An unopened copy in the original wrappers, a state in which pre-revolutionary Russian academic publications very seldom survive.