#Russian collection series#

The Collection presents domestic and foreign documents in the format of leaf editions, art albums, books, and CDs. Period of coverage: from the 17th century to the present

Generally, there are publications on traditional media, although there are also books printed on unusual materials - silk, cork and others.Īvailable in the Reading room of Book Museum.ĭigital collection in limited access (in RSL's reading rooms only) In addition to the books, there are brochures, leaflets, newspapers, magazines, printed music, maps, and albums. In the Collection there are widely represented domestic early printed books of the 16th - the first quarter of the 19th century, foreign editions of the 15th -17th centuries, and selectively books of later periods. Period of coverage: from the 15th century to the present Periodicals - magazines for the past three years, newspapers for the last three months - are widely represented.Īvailable in the Reading rooms № 1, № 2, № 3 of the Department of library and information services in special areas in the 1st Entrance of the Main building of the RSL on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The collection includes relevant printed publications of the central publishing houses in Moscow and St. It also includes modern abstracts publications, domestic and foreign encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books, guidebooks, calendars, presented on different media: printed editions, microfiches, electronic publications and databases.Īvailable in the Reading room of Bibliographic services and in the Reading room of the Central Reference library.Ĭollection size: more than 60 thousand units The Collection contains bibliographic indexes in Russian, in languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation and foreign languages, except Oriental languages. Period of coverage: from the 19th century to the present Of particular value there are more than 200 private book collections of the domestic outstanding figures of science, culture, education, prominent bibliophiles and collectors of Russia.Īvailable in the reading rooms № 1, № 2 and № 3 of the Department of Library and Information Service.Ĭentral Reference and Bibliographic CollectionĬollection size: more than 300 thousand units The Central Main Collection comprises printed publications in Russian, in the languages of the peoples of Russia and foreign languages (except Oriental languages).

Period of coverage: From the 18th century to the present The E-library of the RSL is the collection of digital copies of valuable and the most frequently requested publications from the collections of the RSL and external sources, as well as born-digital documents.Īvailable from computers in the reading rooms of the Russian State Library part of the publications - from any computer connected to the Internet.Ĭollection size: more than 29 million units Period of coverage: from the 18th century to the present You can work with electronic library documents and network remote resources on computers in the RSL reading rooms, and some of them are available from any computer connected to the Internet. Hundreds of thousands of network remote resources purchased by the Library for readers are also available. In addition, more than 1.5 million documents have been digitized and made part of the E-library of the Russian State Library. The size of all holdings exceeds 47.4 million items, and about three million of them are particularly valuable editions and other documents.Ĭollections are divided by categories of publications and are available in the respective reading rooms.

#Russian collection series#

The Second Saturday lecture series is supported in part with federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds allocated to the New York State Library by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).The Russian State Library comprises the unique domestic and foreign collections in 367 languages of the world. Watch now and learn more about a story that Seerup calls a combination of Downton Abbey and Doctor Zhivago! He builds on research from archival materials ( some of which can be found here) and personal connections to the General’s descendants. Throughout the presentation, Seerup references the family history of original collector Russian General Paul Goudime-Levkowitch, who was an alumnus of the prestigious Corps des Pages and had been a personal page to Tsar Alexander III.

This story involves the Russian Imperial Family and the Danish Royal Family and takes us from Saint Petersburg via Manchuria to the French Riviera and then to London, Greece and finally Copenhagen. In this lecture, the audience received in-depth overview of the amazing collection of Russian uniforms and militaria at the Royal Danish Arsenal Museum.