История Екатерины II. В 2 т. (Венценосцы; Воцарение Екатерины. 1762-1764)

Vasiliĭ Alekseevich Bilʹbasov (1838-1904) - russkiĭ istorik i zhurnalist. Posle zakrytii͡a v 1883 g. gazety "Golos", kotorui͡u Bilʹbasovredaktiroval v techenie 12 let, on posvi͡atil sebi͡a izuchenii͡u Ekateriny II. Sobrav i obrabotav neizvestnye ranee dokumentalʹnye materialy poistorii ee pravlenii͡a, on predstavil russkomu obshchestvu obraz Ekateriny-zhenshchiny, otlichavshiĭsi͡a ot raskhozhikh skazaniĭ, porozhdennykh dlitelʹnym zapretom na dostup k lichnym dokumentam imperatrit͡sy. Pervyĭ tom knigi uvidel svet v 1890 g. i poluchil vysokui͡u ot͡senku istorikov i chitateleĭ. Vtoroĭ zhe tom, vyshedshiĭ v 1891 g., byl izʺi͡at iz prodazhi i unichtozhen t͡senzuroĭ po ukazanii͡u Aleksandra III, kotoryĭ prognevalsi͡a na nekotorye opublikovannye materialy, sochti͡a nepodobai͡ushchim raskrytie otdelʹnykh podrobnosteĭ zhizni imperatorskoĭ familii. Avtoru prishlosʹ sokratitʹ svoĭ trud, chtoby zapreshchennai͡a kniga, interes k kotoroĭ ne propadal v posledui͡ushchie gody, doshla do chitateli͡a. I nakonet͡s, v 1900 g. ona byla izdana v Berline na russkom i͡azyke bez t͡senzurnykh propuskov. Trud Bilʹbasova publikuetsi͡a v polnoĭ avtorskoĭ redakt͡sii.

Vasily Alekseyevich Bilbasov (1838-1904) was a Russian historian and journalist. After the closure of the Golos newspaper in 1883, which bilbasov edited for 12 years, He devoted himself to the study of Catherine II. Having collected and processed previously unknown documentary materials on the history of her reign, he presented to Russian society the image of Catherine-a woman, which differed from the popular tales generated by the long ban on access to the personal documents of the Empress. The first volume of the book was published in 1890 and was highly appreciated by historians and readers. The second volume, published in 1891, was withdrawn from sale and destroyed by the censors on the instructions of Alexander III, who was angry at some published materials, considering it inappropriate to disclose certain details of the life of the Imperial family. The author had to reduce his work so that the banned book, which did not lose interest in the following years, reached the reader. And finally, in 1900. it was published in Berlin in Russian without censorship. Bilbasov's work is published in the full author's edition.