title: The Firkovich Odessa Collection: The History of its acquisition and research, present condition and historical value
abstract: numerous, discovered by Abraham Firkovich (1787-18&amp;apos;14) in the course of his expeditions to the Crimea and the Caucasus in lE39-40. Some additional discov-eries were made by him in the following years, until 1852. Firkovich transferred these manuscripts to the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities, where they were kept till 1863, when on the orders of Alexander II they were taken to the lmperial Public Library, the National Library of Russia of today. There they were added to the mai