The editions of „Pamjatnoj Knižki Kališskoj Gubernii” as an example of Russian publishing in the Kingdom of Poland

Abstract

“Pamjatnyje Knižki” is the name of official, provincial and informational publications, existing as a kind of guide, which were printed in eighty-eight governorates and districts of the Russian Empire and published by local authorities. They were first published in the early thirties of the nineteenth-century (precisely in 1833) and released until 1917. Since the mid-forties of nineteenth-century the publications were printed in governorates developed on the areas of the former Republic of Poland. In the Podolia Governorate “Pamjatnaja Knižka” was published in the years 1859–1885?, while in the Grodno Governorate in the years 1860–1861 and 1864–1915.