The Presidential Library: New acquisitions

The Presidential Library collection has been enriched with the materials provided by the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, the Central Naval Library, the State Public Historical Library, the Tambov Regional Universal Scientific Library.

New acquisitions are devoted to the history of Russian Imperial Army regiments and urban settlements in the Russian Empire.

In the edition To the centennial of the fortress of Vyborg Infantry Battalion. 1806 - 16/VIII - 1906 (Vyborg, 1906), compiled by data, collected by lieutenant colonel Vladykin and lieutenant Tiflov, is presented the information on the basis of the regiment, on its participation in the war with Sweden, in the Patriotic War of 1812 and foreign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813-1814; the inner life of the regiment (weapons, uniforms, training, reviews, awards, acknowledgments, penalties), it is also presented the characteristics of the commanders of the regiment over the years. 

In the book by P. T. Gubernarchuk Essays on the history of the 129th Infantry of Bessarabia His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Regiment. 1806-1863-1906 (Kiev, 1909) is described the history of the regiment, its reformation; it is provided the information about the combat, hiking (the Crimean campaign of 1853-1856, the war with Turkey in 1877-1878, the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, the revolution of 1905) and the peaceful life of the battalion. The publication includes portraits, drawings and plans. 

Multivolume reference book "Urban settlements in the Russian Empire" (St. P., 1860-1865) includes all the existing urban settlements of the Russian Empire, arranged in alphabetical order of the provinces as of 60s of the XIX century:

Volume 1 (1860) contains information on the Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan provinces of Bessarabia and the Amur region of Vilna, Vitebsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Voronezh and Volyn provinces. 

Volume 2 (1861) is dedicated to Vyatka and Grodno provinces, the Don land, Yekaterinoslav province and Taganrog local authority of the Yenisei province, the Trans-Baikal region and local authority of the Kyakhtinsk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaluga, Kiev, Kovno and Kostroma provinces.

Volume 3 (1863) contains information about the Kursk, Minsk, Mogilev, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Orenburg and Olonets provinces, the land of the Ural Cossack troops of the Orel, Penza and Perm provinces.

Volume 4 (1864) is dedicated to the Podolsk and Poltava provinces, the Primorsk region of Eastern Siberia, Pskov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov provinces, Semipalatinsk region, the Siberian region Kirgizov, Simbirsk, Smolensk and Taurian province, Kerch-Yenikolsk local authority.

Volume 5, Part 1 (1865) contains information about the Tambov, Tver, Tobolsk, Tomsk, Tula and Kharkov provinces.

Volume 5, Part 2 (1865) includes information about the Kherson, Chernihiv, Yakut and Yaroslavl provinces.

Volume 7 (1864) contains historical information about the capital city of St. Petersburg and the cities of the St. Petersburg Province.

The preparation of new materials will be continued.