Η ανέκδοτη βιβλιογραφία για τη Μακεδονία στα χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας του "εκ Μόσχας φιλέλληνος Ιωάννου Πέτρωφ"

Abstract

On the basis of one of Petrov’s manuscripts (which are now in the Library of the Greek Parliament), the writer gives an account of his bibliographical list of works relating to the history of Macedonia under Ottoman rule. This is preceded by some biographical information about Petrov, who was born in 1849 in Moscow and died in 1922 in Athens, where he had settled with his family in 1882, bringing with him the large library he had put together after resigning (in 1874-5) from his post as a regular artillery officer in the Russian army.

The writer also gives information about Petrov’s atlases and his books on the Greek struggle for liberation from 1821 to 1828 and Macedonia, which were first published in Leipzig and republished recently. He ends with an account of Petrov’s unpublished «Illustrious Klephts of Macedonia», which was published in Thessaloniki in 1972, edited with an introduction and additions by G. C. Chionidis.

Petrov’s bibliography comprises a «Τετράδων» (file) of the third, un­ published, volume of his «History of Macedonia: The Ottoman Period», which is registered as No. 294a in the Parliamentary Library’s catalogue of manuscripts. It comprises the main part (pp. 3-225) and a supplement (pp. 226- 62), and contains a total of 4,032 entries relating both to books and to articles in periodicals and newspapers.

The writer ends with an account of the distinctive features of the way in which the entries are recorded, and proposes that the whole bibliography be published.