Russian studies

Specialists

Blogs

Resources for understanding the 2014 crisis in Ukraine | March 11, 2014

Topic guides

Russia and Eurasia: find articles
Russia, East Central Europe and Eurasia: Transliteration & computer setup
Russia and Eurasia: find news
Russia and Eurasia: find statistics, geographical information and maps
Russia and Eurasia: find primary sources
Russian literature

Notable collections

  • Yevtushenko reading at the Library of Congress

    Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Papers

    Yevtushenko (his name can also be spelled Evgenii Evtushenko) is one of the foremost Soviet and Russian poets. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several films. The collection (88 linear feet) includes manuscripts, correspondence, speeches, political files, biographical material, posters, photographs, clippings, videorecordings, art works, and writings by others.
  • Andrei Voznesenskii at awards ceremony, 2008

    Andrei Voznesenskii Papers

    Andrei Voznesenskii was one of the foremost poets of post-Stalinist Russia. He is the author of approximately 40 volumes of poetry in Russian, two collections of fiction, at least three plays and two operas. He also created many works of visual art, in graphic and sculptural form. The collection contains a large number and proportion of manuscripts (5 of the approximately 29 total linear feet). It also includes correspondence, photograph, personal files, media materials, writings about him, and ephemera.

  • Joseph Brodsky, 1988

    Joseph Brodsky Papers from the Archives of the Katilius Family

    Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. Ramunas Katilius and Elmira Katiliene were his good friends beginning in 1966. The collection (4.25 linear feet) includes correspondence with the family; drafts of Brodsky’s poems; a collection of poems compiled and typed by him; Vladimir Maramzin’s 3-volume samizdat collection of Brodsky’s poetry; drawings by Brodsky; and photographs.