Russian Freemasonry. XVIII and the First Quarter of the XIX Century.

Alexander Pypin (1833-1904) - Russian literature, ethnographer, academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898), vice president of the Academy of Sciences (1904); cousin Chernyshevsky. The representative of the cultural-historical school, fiction considered in connection with the history of social thought. The author of "History of Russian Literature" (Vol. 1-4, 1911-1913), "History of Russian Ethnography" (Vol. 1-4, 1890-1892), "History of Slavic Literature" (vols. 1-2, 18791881, together with VD Spasovich). The book Pypin collected his perennial work on the history of Freemasonry in Russia, such as: General comments on the Russian Freemasonry Masonic ritual, first lodges in Russia, Rosicrucianism, Illuminism and Moscow Martinists in the presentation of Catherine II, and others. It also includes an extensive Index of Russian lodges Freemasonry first introduction to ban it (1717-1829). Reprint Technology print-on-demand with the original 1916