An antique Russian book by Maxim Vinaver titled Recent, Memories and Characteristics. Third edition, Paris, 1926. The book contains essays that provide accurate and imaginative portrait characteristics that reveal the very essence of the personalities of prominent figures in Russian judicial reform, post reform justice and the reform of Russian civil law. Maxim Moiseevich Vinaver, 1863 to 1926, Russian lawyer and politician, one of the founders of the Constitutional Democratic Cadets Party, an outstanding judicial and political speaker, and memoirist. Antique Russian Books And Bibliophilic Collectibles.