Russian title (The life and death of Richard III King of England, a tragedy of Mr Shakespeare who lived in the 16th century and died in 1576 [sic] Translated from the French in Nizhny Novgorod in 1783

Item author: William Shakespeare
Item date: 1787
Grant Value: 6,750
Item cost: 6,750
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

This edition of Richard III is the first real translation of Shakespeare into Russian. The identity of the translator, who was probably working from the French of Pierre Prime Flicin Le Tourneur has not yet been established

Item Provenance
Bookplate of Alexandre Sementchikoff, an officer in the Leib-Atamanskii Cossack Regiment during the First World War who emigrated to Paris after 1917