Vasiliev, A. A. History of the Byzantine Empire. Latin Domination in the East (Latinskoe vladychestvo na vostoke). The Epoch of the Nicaean and Latin Empires (1204-1261). Academia, 1923. In Russian.

Васильев, А. А. История Византии. Латинское владычество на востоке. Эпоха Никейской и Латинской империй (1204-1261). Первое издание.
Петроград : Издательство Academia, 1923. 76 с.
Издательская бумажная обложка. Уменьшенный encyclopedic формат, 23,5 х 16 см.
Состояние удовлетворительное: четыре сквозных прокола по внутреннему полю около корешка от архивной подшивки; блок внутри чистый, полный текст монографии сохранен, но утрачены два последних дополнительных листа приложений.
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Vasiliev, A. A. History of the Byzantine Empire. Latin Domination in the East. The Epoch of the Nicaean and Latin Empires (1204-1261). First edition.
Petrograd : Academia Publishing House, 1923. 76 pp.
Original printed paper wrappers. Reduced encyclopedic format, 23.5 x 16 cm.
Condition fair: four punch holes run through the entire text block and wrappers near the spine from historical archival binding; block internally clean, main text complete, but lacks the final two supplementary leaves.

A highly significant historiographical work representing the first edition of Alexander Vasiliev's specialized monograph on the late Byzantine era. Alexander Alexandрович Vasiliev (1867-1953) was a preeminent Russian orientalist, Arabist, and one of the world's leading authorities on Byzantine history. Published in 1923 by the legendary early Soviet "Academia" press during its formative Petrograd period, this study focuses on the complex geopolitical and cultural landscape of the Christian East following the devastating Fourth Crusade of 1204. It meticulously examines the parallel structures of the Western-imposed Latin Empire and the exiled Byzantine state of the Nicaean Empire up to the restoration of Constantinople in 1261. Crucially for collectors, shortly after this volume was printed, in 1925, Vasiliev emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States, where he became the cornerstone of Byzantine academic studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks. Consequently, his early Soviet publications were systematically suppressed, removed from libraries, or excluded from reprint cycles in the USSR for decades. This first edition survives as a vital testament to the persistence of rigorous classical Russian scholarship in the immediate post-revolutionary years. While the present copy bears the physical marks of historical archival compilation and lacks two commercial endleaves, the core scholarly text remains pristine, making it a highly desirable acquisition for institutional collections and bibliophiles focusing on Byzantium, Crusader history, and suppressed academic literature.