Description
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1890–1907 by Brockhaus-Efron, a joint venture of the Saint Petersburg printer I.A. Efron and the F.A. Brockhaus publishing company of Leipzig, Germany. In 86 volumes, the work contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. The encyclopedia was patterned on the famous Brockhaus Enzyklopädie that was published by Brockhaus in Germany in numerous editions during the 19th century, but its contents are distinctively Russian. The encyclopedia was produced under the overall editorship ...