Administrative Information
Provenance
The Israel Perlstein Collection Relating to Imperial Russia was donated to the Library of Congress in 1931 by Perlstein, a rare book dealer in New York City.
Processing History
The collection was in 1985 and reprocessed in 1996. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Related Material
Perlstein also sold a considerable number of books from various Imperial Russian collections to the Library during the 1930s. These volumes are now located in the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections, Music, European, and other divisions of the Library.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Israel Perlstein Collection Relating to Imperial Russia, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.