Encyclopedic Dictionary of F. Pavlenkova . With 2,607 polytypes, including 895 portraits and 112 maps engraved in Paris 5th edition, from the 4th edition stereotype. Spb. : Type. T-wa Pec. and ed. The Work Affair, 1913. [8] with. , 3104 stlb. with Ill. 18.6 x 12.1 cm. Circulation of about 20,000 copies. Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov (1939 - 1900) - one of the largest Russian book publishers, whose activities were of great importance for domestic education; the compiler of the famous short encyclopedic dictionary and other educational reference publications A one-volume illustrated encyclopedic dictionary published by F. F. Pavlenkov, enjoyed enormous popularity in Russia. The French encyclopedic dictionary P. was used as a model. Larousse . For its time, it was a significant phenomenon, because it contained brief and reliable information about almost all spheres of life, science, art. It explained about 35 thousand terms. First edition of the F. dictionary F. Pavlenkova came out in St. Petersburg in 1899 . After the death of the publisher (1900), his successors published 4 editions of the dictionary (2nd in 1905 and 1907). , 3rd in 1909. , 4th in 1910. , 5th in 1913. ). Part of the second edition (1907) included "Addition", which contained articles on current political topics ("Agrarian movement", "Unemployment", "Punishment expeditions", etc. ), articles about the leaders of the Russian revolutionary movement and t. d. The “addition” was forbidden by the tsarist censorship, and the publishing house had to withdraw it; some of the articles in the “smoothed” edition entered the 4th and 5th editions.