An Internet Search for Information on the 6000 Books in D.M. Golitsyn's Library: the Origin of this Legend and Determination of the Possible Size of the Library

摘要

This paper describes the information that permits one to determine the origin of the legend that there were 6000 books in D.M. Golitsyn's library. Fragmentary information was found using the Internet directly on sites, in digitized book editions and the descriptions of archival file, as well as in printed publications, whose bibliographic descriptions were found on the Internet. An attempt was made to determine the possible size of D.M. Golitsyn's library. The article describes how the Internet was used to reveal little-known information from the history of Russian private libraries while subsequently gaining new information on them by complex data analysis.