Officers’ Library of the 72^nd Tula Infantry Regiment (1862–1914)

   The purpose of the article is to present the history of the creation and activities of the officers’ library of the 72^nd Tula Infantry Regiment.

   The initial local legal documents regulating its establishment and functioning were revealed: „Regulation on the regimental library“ and „Rules for issuing books from the regimental library“. The analysis of these documents was carried out, which made it possible to characterize the purpose of its creation, composition and procedure for replenishing library collections, management, the Library Commission composition and duties of its members, as well as the librarian and library watchman, library capital and its sources, size and procedure for paying membership fees by officers, settling of the librarian with the regimental treasurer, creation, storage, spending and verification of the library amount, spending of spare library capital, compiling an estimate of library expenses, cash receipts and expenses, library catalog, storage and transportation of the library, the procedure for ordering books and periodicals, rules for issuing books from the regimental library. The “History of the 72^nd Tula Infantry Regiment” (Warsaw, 1901) was examined for information on the history of the creation and activities of the officers’ library. The inventory on the state of the officers’ library in 1897 according to the catalog of books compiled by Captain V. G. Vostrosablin was done. His article „Officers’ Meetings“, published in the journal „Scout“ for 1898, was analyzed.

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