Recent collections

Recent collections

The Russian Metro: History and modernity

The collection is dedicated to the main stages of the formation and development of subways in Russia. Today the metro is not only a convenient transport system, but also an important element of urban infrastructure, reflecting the historical and cultural development of cities.

Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878

The collection dedicated to the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 includes research, archival materials, official documents, memoirs, journalism, periodicals, albums and other materials. The collection contains materials about military operations on the fronts, international relations, and society during the war, and special attention should be paid to sections dedicated to helping war heroes.

Schism of the Russian Orthodox Church

The collection is devoted to the schism that took place in the Russian Orthodox Church in the middle of the seventeenth century. The selection includes archival documents, biographical and autobiographical materials, scientific works, rare publications of the 17th-19th centuries, as well as abstracts of modern dissertation research.

Russian Military Historical Society

The digital collection dedicated to the Russian Military Historical Society contains both modern official documents and materials from the early 20th century history of the organization. These include instructions, circulars, regulations, meeting logs, official correspondence, collections of published materials, newspaper articles, and materials from regional branches of the society. Additionally, there are publications and periodicals related to military history.

Russian Geographical Society

The digital collection dedicated to the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) contains texts of charters, regulations, lists of members, surveys of individual members, expedition reports, travel descriptions, and reviews of society's work on history, ethnography, geography, and other sciences. It also includes bibliographic indexes, scientific monographs, abstracts of dissertations, catalogues of books from the society's library, descriptions of manuscripts, scientific archive with a list of funds, archival files including memoirs, personal correspondence, and various administrative, financial, and economic documents, as well as exhibition materials, cartographic materials, and visual materials.