The text describes the Polish bookshop in Moscow and the question of the dedication of the newly built library building, which remains in the care of the Benevolent Society at the Church of St Peter and St Paul. The building was funded by General Alfons Szaniawski for 40,000 roubles. The text goes on to mention the interior of the building and the issue of the Polish colony in Moscow itself (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1906,No. 40-52, Semester II, p. 1035, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text.

Polish Bookstore in Moscow.

In Moscow, on 4 November at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the newly erected edifice of the Polish Library, under the management and care of the Good Society at the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, was consecrated. This edifice was erected at a cost of 40,000 roubles, left by the late General Alfons Szaniawski, according to a design by the architect Mr Ignacy Zaleski. Inside, downstairs, there is a bookshop, the view of which gives the place where the act of consecration of the premises was performed. Upstairs, i.e. on the first floor, there is a hall with a small space for a stage or a show. This hall is of great importance as a meeting place for our much scattered countrymen, and, as such, presents to the library or the Benevolent Society a source of steady income. At present, it is already rented for a number of evenings by our "Lute", and so we can safely say, following the chairman of the Benevolent Society, advocate Lednicki, that the building of the Polish Library in Moscow is not only a shelter for several thousand Polish books, but is "the first Polish home". At the general meeting, which took place in the hall of the newly consecrated building, the speeches made showed the continuous growth and development of the Polish Library Society in Moscow, as an institution of immense usefulness and importance. On a day so solemn for the Polish colony in Moscow, which was the day of the opening of the first "Polish House", the delegates of the Benevolent Society from several gubernias of the Empire were present as very kind and long-awaited guests.