Alexey Ivanovich Kasterin ( 1806 - 1847 ) - Russian bibliophile , collector of Old Slavonic books.
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According to I.P. Sakharov , “he was born ... in the Poshekhonsky district of Yaroslavl lips. . His father was still a master peasant. He moved to Moscow with his father after 1812. First he collected pigeons, then he began to collect flowers for the garden. At this time, he met the gardener merchant Zubchaninov, a famous writer. This taught him to read books - novels and novels. Pigeons and flowers were thrown, and piles of all kinds of books flew from Isaev’s shop ... ”
The Kasterin collection, described after his death by V. M. Undolsky and bought for 10,000 rubles by the philanthropist S.F.
Literature
- Kasterin, Alexey Ivanovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.