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Russian Studies

Scholarly resources in Russian Studies. The resources organized here are all freely available and have undergone a selection and evaluation process.

History

DOCUMENTS, DATA FILES, PRIMARY LITERATURE

The Radziwill Manuscript

The Radziwill Manuscript is a monumental historical document that sheds light on the history of Russia and its neighbors from the 5th to the beginning of the 13th century, executed in a picturesque form, with more than six hundred color illustrations. Having gained wide popularity in scientific circles in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Königsberg Chronicle, as this chronicle is often called, is considered one of the oldest surviving examples of Russian illustrated chronicles. The original chronicle is in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg

Dom Romanovykh

Russian Imperial Historical Newspapers

Post-Perestroika Newspapers

Polnoe Sobranie Russkikh Letopisei (Russian Primary Chronicles Collection)

Russian Publications from Exile

Old Russian birch bark documents / Древнерусские берестяные грамоты

The basis of the collection of birch bark documents consists of documents extracted from the cultural layer of Veliky Novgorod by the Novgorod Archaeological Expedition (NAE, leaders: A. V. Artsikhovsky - from 1933 to 1978, V. L. Yanin - from 1978), stored in the State Historical Museum (GIM) and the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve (NGOMZ).

For industrialization / За индустриализацию 

Hosted by (Moscow State University Department of Historical Informatics)
Nearly complete set of issues for the years 1930 and 1937 (corresponding to the end of the First and Second Five Year plans, respectively) of the official organ of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy (VSNkh SSSR) and (from 1932) People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (NKTP).

Prokhudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress

Laurentian Codex - Full Text (in Russian)

The Hypatian Codex

Hypatian Chronicle. Compendium of three chronicles: Nestor the Chronicler's Povist’ vremennykh lit (Tale of Bygone Years, ca 1110) with some alterations, particularly at the end of the text, the Kyiv Chronicle of the 12th century, and the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle. The oldest redaction of the compendium, dating back to the early 15th century, was discovered by Nikolai Karamzin at the Hypatian Monastery in Kostroma, Russia

The Russian Primary Chronicle

Nestor's Chronicle

Stalinka: Digital library of Staliniana 

Russo-Japanese War

Bibliotheca Augustana

Russian Archives

Digital Library of RGADA - Provides Links to Russian History Primary Documents

Russian Avant-garde

Newspapers from 1917 

 

REFERENCE WORKS, GATEWAYS, TERTIARY LITERATURE

Guide to Reference Resources

 

LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS

Online Library of the State Public Historical Library

Online Library of History Department of Moscow State University

Online Catalog of Presidential Library

 

SOCIETIES, ACADEMIC CENTERS, ORGANIZATIONS

Insitute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Science

History Department of Moscow State University

Russian History Society