. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 34.—I-'eodor Fedorovich Schubert (1789-1865), noted Russian collector and author (photo couricsy the Hermitage, Leningrad). as Descri[>li6>i general de las mnnedas hisparm-crislianas (1865-1869) and Description generate des monnaies antiaues de rEspagne (1870). A still useful reference Ijook which should he mentioned is the huso Catdlogo de la coleccion de mnnedasy medallas (1892), representing the important cabinet of Manuel Vidai Quadras y Ramon. -Most of the basic reference books on Russian numismatics were written during the l
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 34.—I-'eodor Fedorovich Schubert (1789-1865), noted Russian collector and author (photo couricsy the Hermitage, Leningrad). as Descri[>li6>i general de las mnnedas hisparm-crislianas (1865-1869) and Description generate des monnaies antiaues de rEspagne (1870). A still useful reference Ijook which should he mentioned is the huso Catdlogo de la coleccion de mnnedasy medallas (1892), representing the important cabinet of Manuel Vidai Quadras y Ramon. -Most of the basic reference books on Russian numismatics were written during the later part of the 19th century. Fedor Fedorovich .Schubert (1789- ) issued a detailed catalog of his collection in 1857 and republished it later in two separate works: Monnayes russes des dernihes trois siecles (1857), and Monnaies el medailles russes (1858). A few decades later, another outstanding collector, Count Ivan Tolstoi, covered the early periods of the Russian principalities in such works as Drevneislne russkie rnonely velihigo kniaszhestva h'ievskogo (1882) and Mone/y Psknrskie (1886). 'I'hc great specialist in ancient and medieval numismatics, Alcksei \'. Oreshnikov, pro- duced in Russkie mnnety do 1547 gnda (1896) the classic work on early Russian coinages. C'haudoir's Apergu sur hs monnaies russes and .Schubert's works (mentioned earlier), published in French, are, even to the present day, the most popular reference books outside of Russia on general Russian numismatics. Because of the language barrier. Christian Giel's compact list Tahlilsy russkikh monet dvukh poslednikh sloletii (1898) and Ilyin and Tolstoi's publication on Russian coins struck from 1725 to 1801, Russkie rnonely chekanenme s 1725 po 1801 g. (1910), are referred to only occasionally. The monumental publication of Grand Duke Georgii MikhaiIo\itch. cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, represents Russia's outstanding con- tril)ution to modern numismatics: Monety tsarstvovanii (1888-1914) describes in
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