A book about the history and collections of The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg during the October revolution of 1917.

Hardcover, collated 16mo, 20,7 x 13.5 cm, grey cloth, black and blue lettering to front, blue lettering to spine, blue endpapers; collation: [1]⁸ 2-16¹⁶ (total 248 leaves); pp.: [2] 3-493 [3] (total 496 pages) plus frontispiece. 1^st edition (lifetime).

Title-page: С. ВАРШАВСКИЙ | Б. РЕСТ | БИЛЕТ | НА ВСЮ | ВЕЧНОСТЬ | ПОВЕСТЬ | ОБ ЭРМИТАЖЕ | ЛЕНИЗДАТ • 1978 ||

Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky [Сергей Петрович Варшавский] (Jewish-Russian, 1906 – 1980).

B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980).

Борис Борисович Пиотровский (Russian, 1908 – 1990).