Lenin loved the New York Public Library. (h/t Joanna Bujes) I have before me the report of the New York Public Library for 1911. That year the Public Library in New York was moved from two old buildings to new premises erected by the city. The total number of books is now about two million. It so happened that the first book asked for when the reading-room opened its doors was in Russian. It was a work by N. Grot, The Moral Ideals of Our Times. The request for the book was handed in at eight minutes past nine in the morning. The book was delivered to the reader at nine fifteen. In the course of the year the library was […]