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Russian 18th-century Periodicals: a resource guide

Periodicals

Inscription and doodle found in an issue of a Russian 18th-century periodical. Library of Congress Rare Book & Special Collections Division.

The Library of Congress has 67 unique titles of Russian periodicals from the eighteenth century. The periodicals are available upon request in the Rare Book & Special Collections Reading Room. The majority of the periodicals are part of the Yudin collection, an extensive selection of mostly Russian print materials which was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1907. For more information about the Yudin collection, see this guide.

A comprehensive list of the Russian 18th-century periodicals available in the Rare Book & Special Collections Reading Room is provided below. A brief description of each periodical is included as well as holdings information. The list is organized alphabetically according to how the titles of the periodicals are transliterated into English using the Library of Congress Romanization standards for Russian, a table for which can be found here. This is particularly relevant for Cyrillic letters such as ч and ж which are transliterated as 'ch' and 'zh' respectively. This means the journal Живописец would be transliterated as 'Zhivopisets' and thus categorized under 'Z' in the list.

Please note that the following list does not include descriptions or holdings information for Russian 18th-century newspapers, such as Moskovskiia viedomosti. Such information can be found in the Russian Newspapers in the Library of Congress guide. The following list does include many titles which were originally printed as supplements to eighteenth-century newspapers but are categorized separately as journals in the Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi XVIII veka ('Union Catalog of the Russian Book of the XVIII century') (Moscow, 1966). Russian calendars and almanacs from the eighteenth-century will be covered in a separate section of this guide.

Quick links to each alphabetical section of the list are available here (some letters are not represented as there are no corresponding titles):

A | B | C | D | E | G | I | K | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | Z

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

A

B

C

D

E

G

I

K

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

Z