Book History: Conference on History of Book Publishing in Pre-Revolutionary Russia underway in St. Petersburg

October 18 - 20 2011 the National Library of Russia (Main Building, Conference Hall) in St. Petersburg is mounting the Conference on History of Book Publishing in Pre-Revolutionary Russia of 19th century — beginning of 20th century — 17th Pavlenkov’s Readings.

The conference is expected to cast light on various aspects of the history of book culture in the Russian Empire: book publishing, bookselling, history of censorship, libraries, readership, bibliophilism, book publishing in province.