The encyclopedic dictionary Granat is one of the largest Russian universal encyclopedias. In 1892, Alexander Granat acquired publishing rights to the "Table encyclopedic dictionary" of the partnership "A. Garbel and Co., published in Moscow since 1891. and from the 4th volume the edition of the dictionary was continued by the partnership "A. Pomegranate and Co.". The first 6 editions of the dictionary came out in 8-9 t. (1891-1903). The 7th edition of the dictionary, completely revised, was released in 191048 under the title "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Granates", at 58 t. and 1 dop. volume (the 36th volume was published in 7 books, the 41st volume in 10 books, the 45th volume in 3 books, the 56th volume did not appear in print). Before 1917, the dictionary was published by the association "Brothers A. and . Pomegranate and Co.", after 1917 - Russian Bibliographic Institute Pomegranate, 54th and 58th volumes published by the State Institute "Soviet Encyclopedia" . After the 7th edition of the dictionary, several stereotypical reprints of it were released (volumes published in the 1920s-40s came out with repetitions labeled as stereotypical editions). The dictionary Granat was published under the editorship of K. A. Timiryazeva, M. M. Kovalevsky, S. A. Muromtseva, V. I. Zheleznova, Yu. C. Gambarov (up to volume 33). Many prominent figures of science and culture took part in the creation of the dictionary. Volume 28 (1915) published (not entirely) a well-known work B. and . Lenin (under the pseudonym B.) Ilyin) - "Marx" (a brief biographical essay outlining Marxism), in the appendix to which Lenin's bibliographic review of the literature on Marxism . is given According to the demands of censorship, the chapters “Socialism” and “Tactics of the Class Struggle of the Proletariat” were removed from the article after the October Revolution, they were printed under the title “Society Scientific” in the 40th volume of the dictionary (see .). Also in . and . Lenin, Poln . Sobr. see. , t. 26,s. 43-93). In. and . Lenin in 1908 wrote an article for the dictionary "The Agrarian Question in Russia by the end of the 19th century", but it could not appear in print at that time. After the revolution, this work was repeatedly published in a separate edition, and then entered the 4th part of the 36th volume of the dictionary (1935), devoted to Russia (see .). Also in . and . Lenin, ibid., t. 17, s. 57-137). A peculiar feature of the Granat dictionary is the numerous "text additions" to the main articles of the monograph (for example,, "Basic Ideas of Geometry" in Volume 13 , biobibliographic dictionaries [Autobiographies of revolutionary figures of the Russian socialist movement of the 70-80s] with notes B. N. Figner, in the 40th volume, biobibliographic index of the latest Russian fiction (1861-1911), compiled by I. In. Vladislavev, in Volume 11, et al. ], "Index of Bibliographical Manuals", compiled by B. C. Bodnarsky, K. A. Timiryazev, L. C. Berg et al . , in Volume 6, and t. p. Welcoming this new