REZANOV, NICOLAI PETROVICH DE

by Gertrude Atherton It was undoubtedly Gertrude Atherton's 1906 biography of Reznov that led the editors of Encyclopdia Britannica's Eleventh Edition (191011) to enlist her services as author of the entry that follows. For comparison, see the standing unsigned Fifteenth Edition biography, which reveals not only a change in the encyclopedia's transliteration of the Cyrillic alphabet but a notable change in the editors' estimation of his significance. It is also instructive to note that Atherton's biography was reprinted as late as 1969. Rezanov, Nicolai