The catalog is a reprint of the 13th volume, published volume by volume from 1888 to 1914. Its creator, Georgy Mikhailovich, was a member of the royal family and had access to the archives of the mint, as well as many rare coins. That is why his work turned out to be the most complete in the entire history of numismatics. Complete in the sense that in his catalog all the coins of each year are displayed in pictures (with the exception of some copies that were discovered later or were actually inaccessible to him), but still 90% of the coins ended up in his catalog. In addition to images of all coins of all years, a description is also written for the coin and documents from the mints are reprinted. The catalog also contains images of herds. Based on the work of Georgy Mikhailovich, many other well-known catalogs were made - Bitkin, Uzdenikov. They took images of coins for the most part from the catalog of Georgy Mikhailovich. The catalog is abbreviated as VKGM.
