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Talbot Publishing, 2025. xlv, 507 pp. (illustrator). Talbot Publishing, 2025. xlv, 507 pp. Martens, F.F. Voronin, E.R., Compiler, Annotator, Editor. Butler, William E., Editor, Translator, Annotator, Introductions. The Martens Diaries. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2025. xlv, 507 pp. ISBN-13: 9781616197025. ISBN-10: 1616197021. Laminate hardcover in dust jacket. New. $150. * Written at intervals between 1883 and 1909 by the pre-eminent Russian international lawyer, diplomat, arbitrator, legal scholar, and legal advisor to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Emperor, and Government, these diaries provide a remarkable backstory to Russian foreign policy with particular reference to the two Hague peace conferences, the Portsmouth treaty negotiations ending the Russo-Japanese War, and the celebrated international arbitrations that gave him the title "Lord Chief Justice of the Civilized World." Long buried in Soviet archives and unknown to international legal scholarship, their existence was disclosed under perestroika. In 2023 the text was transcribed and published in Moscow. It is now presented here in English translation, along with extensive annotations identifying personalities, events, diplomatic undertakings and commentary on perceived successes and failures of Russian diplomacy. Fedor Fedorovich Martens [1845-1909] was Professor of International Law at St. Petersburg University and a member of the Institut de Droit International. Evgeny R. Voronin is Professor, Chair of International Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. William E. Butler is The John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law in the University of London (University College London) and Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. He has written extensively on the history of international law. His works include, as the editor and translator, V.E. Grabar, The History of International Law in Russia 1647-1917 (Oxford, 1990) and F.F. Martens, Contemporary International Law of Civilized Peoples (Talbot, 2021-2022); as author, Grotius on War and Peace in English Translation (Talbot, 2021); and, as co-author with V. S. Ivanenko, The Saint.