“I Continue to Successfully Replenish My Book Collection”: Letters of D.V. Ulyaninsky to A.V. Selivanov. Part 1: 1901—1908

The article presents the publication of 23 letters for 1901—1908 by the famous bibliophile and bibliographer D.V. Ulyaninsky (1861—1918), addressed to a prominent fi gure of provincial culture, local historian, zoologist, porcelain collector, bibliophile and bibliographer A.V. Selivanov (1851—1915). They are kept in the State Archive of the Ryazan region. The letters contain new details about the formation of D.V. Ulyaninskyʼs book and bookplate collection. In particular, they provide additional information about the acquisition of a large collection of bookplates by A.V. Selivanov in 1907. Mutual book donations are also discussed in epistolary messages, and bibliographic information is clarifi ed. They provide information about a number of public organizations (The Moscow Society of Lovers of Bookplates, the Historical and Genealogical Society, the Moscow Religious and Philosophical Society in Memory of Vladimir Solovyov). For the fi rst time, this source makes it possible to clearly defi ne the political position of D.V. Ulyaninsky, showing that he positioned himself as a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party.