Acknowledgements

The research for this book was generously funded by a major grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003-06. The author would like to thank the librarians and the staff of three repositories in particular: the Central Scientific Library, Kharkiv V. N. Karazin National University; the Kherson Honchar Oblast archives; and the European Reading Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., as well as Senior Slavic Bibliographer and longtime friend, Jurij D..