Bantysh-Kamensky D. N. The history of Little Russia from the introduction of the Slavs in this country to the destruction of hetmanism. Reprint of 1903 edition. With color app. C. Hour. 1993 656s.+sticker Binding: solid, enlarged format. The book of the prominent historian and archaeologist D.N. Bantysh-Kameny (1788-1850) is one of the first successful attempts to cover the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the end of the XVIII century. BANTISH-KAMENSKY Nikolay Nikolaevich [16(27).XII 1737, Nizhyn, now Chernihiv region. - 20.I (1.II) 1814, Moscow] - Ukrainian and Russian historian, archaeologist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1808). He graduated from the Kiev Academy in 1754, studied at the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy; listened to lectures at the Moscow University (1755). He worked in the Moscow Archive of Foreign Affairs (from 1763 - archivist, then managed the archive). He compiled a number of thematic archival descriptions (in particular, "Historical news about the Union that arose in Poland, with an indication of the beginning and the most important, in its continuation, through two centuries of adventures..." (1794, publ. 1805), which contain sources from the history of Russia and Ukraine. In 1799 he took part in the preparation for the publication of "Words about Igor's regiment." He translated the 1st volume of Voltaire's "History of Peter the Great" (1760).