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The Presidential Library in St. Petersburg has added electronic copies of rare editions related to Peter the Great to its collection, according to a press release from the library's department. The digital copies of 22 books written by Peter the Great are now available in the library's electronic reading room, including manuscripts and printed works in Russian.

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By the beginning of the 18th century, there were no detailed maps and accurate descriptions of many areas in Russia. This changed when Peter the Great came to power. Ilya Shipilov, a senior researcher at the Institute of History at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, discussed this in an interview with "Science in Siberia" magazine.

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The press service of the Presidential Library has announced the addition of electronic copies of rare publications from Peter I's collection to the collections. Digital copies of 22 ancient books by Peter the Great, including manuscripts and printed editions in Russian, are now available in the electronic reading room.

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Where did the narrative of the pictures come from? Was there a Russian comic that inspired them? The Russian and Serbian philologist and literary critic, Irina Antanasievich, asks these questions in her book, "Russian Classics in Pictures" (2015), and seeks to answer them.

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