THE READING CIRCLE OF SIBERIAN GOLD MERCHANT YAKOV FRIZER (1869-1932) AS A PART OF HIS WORLDVIEW
The present article based on personal diaries of a big Siberian gold merchant Yakov Frizer (1869-1932). On the pages of his diaries, he reconstructed every single event that was of considerable importance for him, influenced his life and shaped his habits. Since early childhood, books always were a part of his everyday environment and gave him an inspiration to start his own book collection. Frizer kept the passion for reading during his entire life and even being in emigration in Harbin, never lost interest in new publications.