Mikhailov, D. N. Essays on 19th-Century Russian Poetry (Ocherki russkoy poezii XIX v.), 1904. In Russian.

Михайлов, Д. Н.
Очерки русской поэзии XIX в.
Тифлис : Электропечатня Грузинского издательского товарищества, 1904.
IV, 616 с., VII с. ; Обычный формат. Твердый владельческий переплет.
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Mikhailov, D. N.
Essays on 19th-Century Russian Poetry.
Tiflis : Electro-press of the Georgian Publishing Partnership, 1904.
IV, 616 pp., VII pp. ; Regular format. Hard owner's binding. In Russian.

This 1904 Tiflis imprint is a significant pre-revolutionary literary study that offers an expansive survey of the "Golden Age" of Russian verse. Published at the dawn of the 20th century, the text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of Russian Romanticism and Realism, including the arrangement of the lyrical and philosophical movements that defined the era from Pushkin to the late 19th-century masters. Mikhailov’s essays serve as a bridge between classical 19th-century criticism and the emerging academic standards of the early 1900s, providing detailed aesthetic evaluations of key poets while situating their work within the broader social and cultural currents of the Russian Empire.
The volume is a notable product of the Georgian Publishing Partnership (Gruzinskoe Izdatelskoe Tovarishchestvo) in Tiflis, reflecting the city’s status as a major multi-ethnic cultural capital where Russian literature was vigorously studied and published alongside Georgian works. Spanning over 600 pages, the book is a substantial scholarly effort, characteristic of the high-quality provincial printing of the period. This specific copy is preserved in a durable contemporary owner’s binding, typical for personal library collections of the early 20th-century intelligentsia. For bibliophiles, historians of Russian literature, and collectors of Caucasian imprints, this 1904 Tiflis edition is a vital primary source, documenting the systematic academic reception of the 19th-century poetic canon just years before the structural upheavals of the Russian Revolution.