Reference Links

• Russian dictionaries and encyclopedias

General Russian History and Culture Links

• Art
  • Russian Church Architecture
  • Russian State Hermitage Museum -- the Hermitage holds vast collections of world art, and has a website with a lot of great material; of particular interest is the virtual exhibit on Russian culture
  • the Google Art Project's site for the State Treyakov Gallery, which lets you virtually wander around the museum
  • ditto for the State Russian Museum
  • Olga's Gallery: Russia -- a huge cache of Russian (and non-Russian) art, with short biographies of many artists
• General History
  • Материалы русской истории -- full text (Russian language) copies of basic Russian historical works (Kliuchevskii, Solov'ev, Karamzin, etc.)
• Literature
  • From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse -- information on Russian poets and Russian poetry; includes audio clips of some poems being recited, in some cases by the authors themselves
• Maps
  • Historical Maps of Russia and the Former Soviet Republics
  • Maps from a 1792 Atlas of the Russian Empire, with high quality scans of maps of all the newly formed provinces
• The Arctic/Siberia
  • images from a late 17th century atlas of Siberia by Semen Ul'ianovich Remezov (in Russian, but hit the play button to go through the pages of the books)

Russian History Links: before Peter the Great (before 1700)

• Слово о полку Игореве -- various (all Russian) versions of the Igor Tale, from a larger Russian poetry site
• Igor Tale translated -- simple version
• Writings by/about Ivan IV (the Terrible) -- selections including part of the Kurbsky letters, from Riha, Readings in Russian Civilization

Russian History Links: Imperial Russia (1700-1917)

• General history
  • The National Library of Russia's on-line version of the Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi imperii (Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire)
  • on-line versions of the Svod zakonov Rossijskoi Imperii (Digest of the Laws of the Russian Empire)
• Late Imperial Russia
  • The Empire that Was -- an online exhibit of the amazing, very early color photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
  • Trans Siberian railway: History -- part of a larger website devoted to the railway, including current travel notes
  • another google link--their virtual trip on the Trans Siberian Railway

Russian History Links: the Soviet Union (1917-1991)

• General
  • Revelations from the Russian Archives -- material from a US Library of Congress online exhibition from relatively soon after the end of the Soviet Union
  • Totalitarian Art -- images for a course on this subject
• The Revolution
• John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World -- a full-text version of the famous chronicle of the Russian Revolution
• the Early Soviet Union
  • the photographs of Max Penson, a Soviet photographer based largely in Central Asia
• The War:
  • Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad: the online archive of an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago
• The Cold War Era
  • Cold War International History Project -- archival materials and articles on the Cold War
  • East German Propaganda -- part of a larger project on 20th century German propaganda; warning: some of it's disturbing

Modern Russia Links: the Post-Soviet Experience

• Reflections -- Photographs, 1992-2002