The article describes thought core of design made for publication project “Altai in the Works of Scientists and Travelers, the 18th the Beginning of the 20th Century” by Shishkov Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library (Barnaul, Russia), the basic element of which became colors and surface type of the Altaian semiprecious stones. Reproduction of little known pictural works made in portrait genre, rare landscape water-colors, esquisses by Russian and foreign painters lived around this time are also used in artistic design of five-volume issue. On the issue’s editorial board’s idea, selection of illustrations should help to a reader to trace a dynamics of interests took by domestic and foreign researchers and travelers in Altai.
The paper briefly describes a history of establishing Russian Public Library in Paris, 1875, by an initiative of Russian politician German Lopatin; now, the Library is considered as the oldest Russian language book collection formed outside Russia. Ivan Turgenev's personal library took as a basis of the memorial document collection that gradually became a center of cultural life for the first wave of Russian revolution emigration to France. The article discloses content of the document collection by type of issues, calls its sources until it was seized by Nazi occupational administration in 1940, outlines the history of its “travelling”. Also, the general description of several examples of books and magazines that previously belonged to Ivan Turgenev's Russian Public Library and now is stocked in Vyacheslav Shishkov Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library (Barnaul, Russia) is given.
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