The Presidential Library: New acquisitions

The Presidential Library continues to publish on its portal the materials provided for digitization by the Central Naval Library.

The Territory collection has been enriched by works on geography – researches and descriptions of Russian territories, guides and teaching aids.

Teaching aids and researches are represented by the following editions: M. V. Nikitin Lectures on Physical Geography: course given at the Hydrographic Department of the Naval Academy in 1922-1923. (Pg. 1923), A. G. Obodovsky Brief Geography of the Russian Empire (St. Petersburg, 1844), A. G. Obodovsky Mathematical Geography (St. Petersburg, 1843), A. G. Obodovsky Globe Review (St. Petersburg, 1848 ), I. Ya. Pavlovsky Extensive geography of the Russian Empire, composed by Ivan Pavlovsky, member and employee of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, 1846) Part 1, part 2, I. Ya. Pavlovsky Geography of the Russian Empire composed by Ivan Pavlovsky (Dorpat, 1843) Part 1, part 2, I. Ya. Pavlovsky Guide to geography of the Russian Empire, composed by Ivan Pavlovsky, lecturer at the Imperial University of Dorpat and Associate Member of the Russian Geographical society in St. Petersburg (Dorpat, 1846) Part 1.

 Among the delivered materials are guides - The latest Russian road guide (St. Petersburg, 1797), showing exactly all the post roads of the Russian Empire and the newly annexed areas from the Ottoman Porte and the Republic of Poland, developed through correspondence with the post office: It includes: 1) Weight and relay fees of the two capitals, with the designation of payment for all mail delivery and sending, and the news of the arrival and departure of mails. 2) The distance of all the cities of the Russian empire from two capitals, and from their governorships. 3) Excerpts from mail statutes of order observation in general and about travelers, about the position of postmen and coachmen, the number of horses and payment for their use, with all the details relating to any mail delivery. 4) The newest post roads along the noble places of European powers for travelers, and the Postal Dictionary of the Russian State ... compiled by a collegiate adviser P. P. Orlov (St. Petersburg, 1820), which describes, in alphabetical order, all the post roads and roadways in the Russian Empire, from city to city, with indication of stations on postal routes, and of villages on the roadways; the closest distance of all the forts, outposts, monasteries, villages, factories, forts, stations and villages from the cities on the surrounding roads; the main post roads leading from each provincial town to another with the inclusion of major cities connected to the following regions: Bialystok, Georgia, Bessarabia, Finland, and the New Kingdom of Poland.

The collection also includes "Complete collection of scientific travels through Russia issued by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, upon the invitation of its president [S. S. Uvarov]" (St. Petersburg, 1818-1825). The main purpose of publishing is to compile and spread the basic information about Russia, resulting from the expeditions of the Academy of Sciences, made in different years. The publication, in particular, includes the following studies: Volume 1: Description of Kamchatka (1818) by Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, botanist and ethnographer, participant of the Second Kamchatka Expedition; Volume 3: Travel notes of academician Lepekhin (1821) (Ivan Ivanovich Lepekhin, naturalist and lexicographer, had participated in many scientific expeditions to the Urals, the Volga region, Western Siberia and the Russian North); Volume 6: Travel notes of academician Falk (1824), Volume 7 Comprising the additional articles to the Travel notes of academician Falk (1825) (Johann Peter Falk, physician and naturalist, was the head of the Orenburg expedition to Siberia and the Altai). Each volume contains a biography of the author and the atlas of the travel.

Preparation of new materials for the collection continues.