The exhibition presents a bound book “On the Times of the Great Reform” by Grigory Avetovich Dzhanshiyev. The top section of the inner side of the upper cover features a purple stamp “Library of A.I. Ertel”.
The book was initially paperback and was bound later. As a result, the book has two title pages. The one that was originally the first page of the cover is gray-blue, and the density of the paper is higher. It features a dedicatory inscription in black ink:
To Dear and Kind Alexander Ivanovich Ertel… as a keepsake from the author.
Below the inscription is the title:
On the Times of the Great Reform (Emancipation Reform — Abolition of Corporal Punishment — Censorship Reform — New Judicial Reform, etc.) / Historical references.
The epigraph reads,
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. Apollon Maykov.
The next page contains a dedication “In Memory of Belinsky”, and the top right section features lines from Nekrasov’s poem: “And from the tree unknown/ We pick the fruit thoughtlessly and nonchalantly/ And do not care who grew it…” Then there are three prefaces to the third, second and first editions and an obituary article “Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich”.
Grigory Avetovich Dzhanshiyev was a lawyer, publicist and historian. He was born in 1851 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi). He graduated from the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages and the Faculty of Law of Moscow University. In 1874, he became an assistant sworn attorney and then a sworn attorney in Moscow. He published articles in the newspapers Sudebniy Vestnik (The Juridical Messenger), Russkaya Mysl (Russian Mind), Russkiye Vedomosti (Russian Gazette), Zhurnal Grazhdanskogo i Ugolovnogo Prava (Magazine of Civil and Criminal Law) and Yuridicheskiy Vestnik (The Judicial Messenger).
His main work is “On the Times of the Great Reform” — the first comprehensive study of the reforms adopted in the 1860s–1870s by Emperor Alexander II. Dzhanshiyev advocated the necessity of preserving the basic provisions of these reforms. In his book “Conducting Nonlegal Cases”, he argued that a lawyer should only take cases in which the accused, in the lawyer’s opinion, is actually innocent. Grigory Avetovich Dzhanshiyev also wrote travel notes “The Jewel of the Caucasus. Borjomi and Its Outskirts”, “In Europe” and “Among the Nature’s Children of Fortune and Outcasts”.
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