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