These pages offer a preliminar collection of facts and data about the presence in Russian Culture of Columella's De re rustica, starting with the history of the carolingian codex preserved in the Library of St. Petersburg (Cl. lat. F. v. 1; olim Cod. Sangermanensis Petropolitanus 207), transferred to this city by Pyotr Petrovich Dubrovsky shortly after the French Revolution, and providing an account and primary introduction to significant Russian translations and studies on the Roman agronomist drawn up by both revolutionaries and enemies of the October Revolution.