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The book culture of the Russian emigrants in France in the early XX century remains a low-studied subject. The domestic historiography attempts to consider separate components of book culture. The main attention was paid to publishing activity of political parties or individuals, but these data don’t allow creating the whole picture of the Russian book lore in France in 1900-1914. The main research objective is to complete the specified information lacunas. Various methods are used in the study. To describe the cultural environment, in which the Russian diaspora lived, and all stages of the Russian book lore development in France, both historical-cultural and historical-analytical methods are used. The system approach allows to study comprehensively the Russian book business development in France in the early XX century. In 1900-1914 there was a considerable Russian diaspora in France consisting of various social groups, each of which needed literature published in its native language. Political, artistic and public organizations of the Russian Paris had editions and publishing houses. The universal firms producing and distributing books were created in large cities, combining functions of a printing house, a bookstore and a library. In the early XX century the Russian book business abroad was focused on two types of Russian-speaking readers: these two lived in France and in the Russian Empire. The revolutionary organizations of anarchists, revolutionary socialists and social democrats most often addressed from pages of the magazines and newspapers to the second type of readers. They didn’t publish the life chronicle of the Russian diaspora in Paris in their editions, unlike the news editions that focused on the Russian colony in Paris. Forming a harmonious system of the Russian book publishing and book trading in France in 1900-1914 led to further successful development of book business of «the first wave» Russian emigration.