There are 10 million books in the Russian Public Library in Leningrad, enough to supply every man, woman, and child in the city with two free books. Remarkable as this may sound, however, the statistic is dwarfed by the book-count at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., which has 72,466,926 books on its shelves, or more than seventy two free volumes for every person in Washington.
