Huberti, Nikolai Vasilievich

Born in 1818 in Kolomna, Moscow province, in a military family. Childhood in the village of Shurov, Zaraisk district, Ryazan province, in the estate of his mother - the daughter of the Catherine’s state secretary and the author of the memoirs - A. M. Gribovsky . Having received a home education, he went with his parents to Petersburg, where in 1835 he entered the cadet in the guards artillery. In 1845, he retired with the rank of staff captain and took up the Russian bibliography, carried away by numismatics.

Since 1845, Huberti worked on the compilation of a bibliographic code of Russian publications. In the early 1880s, he discovered on Sukharevka and published in 1885-1886 in the journal " Bibliographer " "Notes of Andrei Bolotov" - one of the important documents of the literary life of Russia since the time of Catherine II. He was an employee of the magazines Russian Antiquity (1875-1878) and Russian Bibliography (1881). His main long-term work is “Materials for Russian bibliography. A chronological review of rare and wonderful Russian books of the 18th century, printed in Russia in civil print ”(M., 1878, 1881 and 1891, three volumes), was awarded the Uvarov Prize from the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

Nikolai Vasilievich collected a personal library, part of it was acquired by the Moscow merchant N.I. Nosov, which almost completely burned down in 1895. ^[1] After the death of Huberti, all the books left after him were bought by D. V. Ulyaninsky .

He was also fond of collecting coins - his collection included rare surviving coins of specific Russian princes.

He died on April 29, 1896 in Moscow.

• Hubert Nikolai Vasilievich // Moscow Encyclopedia. / Ch. ed. S.O. Schmidt . - M. , 2007-2014. - T. Volume I. Faces of Moscow : [in 6 books].