Library catalogs

This section lists major published library catalogs. From bibliographic point of view they are especially important for manuscript books and early imprints which are usually not registered in bibliographies. Union catalogs (Svodnyi katalog) and catalogs of individual libraries play, therefore, an important bibliographic role.

Information about libraries in Russia and their catalogs see Directories.

Bibliography
Manuscript books
Printed books up to 1800
19th-20th century
Private collections
Western repositories
Serials

1. Bibliography

Those who wish to use Russian libraries are advised to consult the following

Sorokina, T.E., Chistiakova, A.S. Svodnye Katalogi Bibliotek Rossii. Annotirovannyi UkazatelÕ. Moscow, Possiiskaia Gos. Biblioteka, 1995.

Russkie Biblioteki I Chastnye Knizhnye Sobraniia Xvi-Xix Vekov. Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov. Leningrad. BAN, 1979.

Gracheva, O.A., Stepanova, E.V. Sobraniia Knizhnykh Pamiatnikov (Redkikh I Tsennykh Izdanii) V Bibliotekakh, Muzeiakh I Arkhivakh RSFSR. Ukazatel' Katalogov I Opisanii. Moscow, MPB, 1991.

Sukiasian, E.R. Katalogi I Kartoteki Krupneishikh Bibliotek Moskvy: Annotirovannyi Perechen'. Moscow, MPB, 1982 lists unpublished catalogs in Moscow's libraries

Sistematicheskii Katalog 1917-1982: Ukazatel' Literatury, Izdannoi V SSSR. Moscow, MPB, 1986, especially pp. 130-149.

Golovko, G. V. Putevoditel' Po Fondu Spravochno-Bibliograficheskogo Otdela Biblioteki Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. vyp. 1. Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk 1724-1991. St. Petersburg, [Biblioteka RAN], 1993.

2. Manuscript books

Catalogs of manuscript collections are published by Russian libraries across the country, old and new, large and small. Libraries in Russia have had a tumultuous history, thus it is difficult to anticipate which library has manuscript books and whether a printed catalog is available. For textological studies all printed catalogs have value, especially since these catalogs contain information about textological variants, artistic values, the printing, watermarks, etc. Unfortunately, they are typically published in limited editions and seldom distributed commercially. Bibliographies listing these catalogs are now quite dated.

For manuscript holdings in Russian libraries see

Grossman, IU.M., Kutik, V.N. Spravochnik Nauchnogo Rabotnika. Arkhivy, Dokumenty, Issledovatel'. 2nd rev. edn. L'vov, Universitet, 1983. (1st edn., 1979).

Consult also works by P.K. Grimsted in Archives section.

Bibliography of catalogs:

Djaparidze, D. Mediaeval Slavic Manuscripts. A Bibliography of Printed Catalogues. Cambridge, Mass., The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1957. (Mediaeval Academy of America. PUBLICATIONS no. 64).

Rogov, A.I. Svedeniia O Nebol'shikh Sobraniiakh Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisei V SSSR. Moscow, AN SSSR, 1962.

Bel'chikov, N.F., et. al. Spravochnik-Ukazatel' Pechatnykh Opisanii Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisei. Moscow-Leningrad, AN SSSR, 1963.

For current registration and update see Bibliografiia Sovetskoi Bibliografii.

Union catalogs:

Shmidt, S.O. et al., eds. Svodnyi Katalog Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisnykh Knig, Khraniashchikhsia V SSSR. XI-XIII VV. Moscow, Nauka, 1984.

Shelamanova, N.B. "Predvaritel'nyi spisok slaviano-russkikh rukopisei XI-XIV vv., khraniashchikhsia v SSSR (dlia Svodnogo kataloga rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v SSSR, do kontsa XIV v. vkliuchitel'no)," Akheograficheskii Ezhegodnik za 1965 God, pp. 177-272.

Turilov, A.A. Predvaritel'nyi Spisok Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisnykh Knig Xv V., Khraniashchikhsia V SSSR (Dlia Svodnogo Kataloga Rukopisnykh Knig, Khraniashchikhsia V SSSR). Moscow, INION, 1986.

Dopolneniia K "Predvaritel'nomu Spisku Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisnykh Knig XV V. : Khraniashchikhsia V SSSR" . Ed. S. O. Shmidt. Moscow, In-t slavianovedeniia i balkanistiki; Arkheogr. komissiia RAN, 1993.

Examples of manuscript catalogs of individual libraries:

Opisanie Rukopisnogo Otdela Biblioteki Akademii Nauk SSSR. St. Petersburg, Akademiia Nauk, 1910. 2 vols. Resumed publication in Leningrad, AN SSSR, 1959- v.3,pt.1-3,v.4,pt.2,v.5-6,v.7,pt.1,v.8,pt.1

Kobiak, N.A., Pozdeeva, I.V. Slaviano-Russkie Rukopisi XV-XVII V. V Nauchnoi Biblioteke MGU. Moscow, MGU, 1981. Continuation in

Kobiak, N.A., Pozdeeva, I.V. Slaviano-Russkie Rukopisi XIV-XVII V. V Nauchnoi Biblioteke MGU. (Postupleniia 1964-1984 GG). Moscow, MGU, 1986.

Zaborova, R.B. et al., eds. Annotirovannyi Ukazatel' Rukopisnykh Fondov GPB. Leningrad, SS, 1981-.

Katalog Drevnerusskikh Gramot Khraniashchikhsia V Otdele Rukopisei I Redkikh Knig Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi Biblioteki IM. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina V Leningrade. Leningrad, SS, 1923- (title changed, editors changed). 2nd rev. edn. of vols 1 and 2 published in 1992.

Kniazevskaia, O.A. et al. Katalog Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisnykh Knig Xi-Xiv Vv., Khraniashchikhsia V Tsgada SSSR . Moscow, Glav. arkhivnoe upr. pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR, TSentr. gos. arkhiv drevnikh aktov SSSR, 1988. 2 v.

A journal of scholarly and bibliographic importance:

Arkheograficheskii Ezhegodnik, 1957-.

3. Printed books up to 1800

Catalogs to individual collections of early Russian imprints are published frequently. There is no readily available bibliography listing them. However, catalogs to major collections and union catalogs listed below will provide adequate information about titles published up to 1800. These union catalogs (svodnye katalogi) fulfill also a bibliographic function. They are arranged much like a bibliography: usually chronologically, with author, title, subject, and geographic indexes. Thus, despite their name, "katalog", they are actually bibliographies with an indication of the location of the listed items. This genre of catalog covers imprints from the beginning of printing in Russia (1564) to the end of the eighteenth century. Information about existing printed catalogs can be obtained from bibliography of bibliographies of catalogs.

Union catalogs:

Svodnyi Katalog I Opisanie Staropechatnykh Izdanii Kirillovskogo I Glagolicheskogo Shriftov. Moscow, [MPB], 1979-.
For methodology of its compilation see:
V Pomoshch' Sostaviteliam Svodnogo Kataloga Staropechatnykh Izdanii Kirillovskogo I Glagolicheskogo Shriftov. Moscow, [MPB], 1976.

Pozdeeva, I.V. Novye Materialy Dlia Opisaniia Izdanii Moskovskogo Pechatnogo Dvora. Pervaia Polovina XVII V. V Pomoshch Sostaviteliam Svodnogo Kataloga Staropechatnykh Izdanii Kirillovskogo I Glagolicheskogo Shrifta. Metodicheskie Rekomendatsii. Moscow, 1986.

Zernova, A.S. Knigi Kirillovskoi Pechati, Izdannye V Moskve V XVI-XVII VV. Svodnyi Katalog. Moscow, [MPB], 1958.

Zernova, A.S. Svodnyi Katalog Russkoi Knigi Kirillovskoi Pechati XVIII V. Moscow, [MPB], 1968.

Bykova, T.A., et al. Opisanie Izdanii, Napechatannykh pri Petre I. Svodnyi Katalog.
It consists of three independent titles:

Opisanie Izdanii, Napechatannykh Kirillitsei, 1689-IAN. 1725. Moscow-Leningrad, AN SSSR, 1958.
Opisanie Izdanii Grazhdanskoi Pechati, 1709-IAN. 1725. Moscow-Leningrad, AN SSSR, 1955.
Dopolneniia I Prilozheniia. Leningrad, AN SSSR, 1972. (Supplement to both works).

Katsprzhak E.I. et al. Svodnyi Katalog Russkoi Knigi Grazhdanskoi Pechati XVIII V., 1725-1800. Moscow, Kniga, 1962-67. 5 vols. and Supplement
Svodnyi Katalog Russkoi Knigi Grazhdanskoi Pechati XVIII Veka, 1725-1800. Dopolneniia, Razyskivaemye Izdaniia, Utochneniia. Moscow, Kniga, 1975.

Savelova. E.A., Shcherbakova, T.P. Svodnyi Katalog Knig Na Inostrannykh Iazykakh, Izdannykh V Rossii V XVIII V. 1701-1800. Leningrad, Nauka, 1984-.

Individual library catalogs:

Pozdeeva, V.I., et al. Katalog Knig Kirillicheskoi Pechati XV-XVII VV. Nauchnoi Biblioteki Moskovskogo Universiteta. Moscow, Universitet, 1980.

Luk'ianenko, V.I. Izdaniia Kirillicheskoi Pechati XV-XVI VV. (1491-1600 G.). Katalog Knig iz Sobraniia RNB. St. Petersburg, [Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka],1993.

Voznesenskii, A.V. Kirillicheskie Izdaniia Staroobriadcheskikh Tipografii Kontsa XVIII-Nachala XIX Veka. Katalog. Leningrad, Universitet, 1991.

4. 19th-20th century books

Catalogs listed below contain also earlier imprints. Their primary importance, however, is for the later periods.

Katalog Russkikh Knig Biblioteki Imp. S.-Peterburgskogo Universiteta (St. Petersburg, 1897-1902. 2 vols).

Catalogue de la Section des Russica Ou Ecrits sur la Russie en Langues Etrangeres. St. Petersburg, Bibliotheque Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburg, 1873. 2 vols.

Zemtsova, N.A. Izdaniia Perioda Revoliutsii I Grazhdanskoi Voiny (1917-1921) V Rossii. Katalog Kolektsii. Moscow, GPI, 1991- Planned in 5 vols.

Shevtsova, A.F., el al. Svodnyi Katalog Listovok Pervykh Let Sovetskoi Vlasti (25 Oktiab'ia (7 Noiabr'ia) 1917-1925). Tom 1. Listovki Vysshikh Organov Gosudarstvennoi Vlasti I Upravleniia, Tsentral'nykh Partiinykh, Profsoiuznykh, Komsomol'skikh I Drugikh Organizatsii. Chast' 1. St. Petersburg, Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka, 1995-

Emigre materials housed in Russian libraries

Akimova, E. A., et al. KNIGI RUSSKOGO ZARUBEZH'IA V SOBRANII ROSSIISKOI GOSUDARSTVENNOI BIBLIOTEKI, 1918-1991: BIBLIOGRAFICHESKII UKAZATEL'. [v 3 ch.] St. Petersburg, Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka, 1997- Ch. 1:A-K. (Knizhnyi mir Rossii)

Adrianova, T.I. et al. RUSSKOE ZARUBEZH'E. KATALOG IZDANII, POSTUPIVSHIKH V ROSSIISKUIU NATSIONAL'NUIU BIBLIOTEKU V 1991-1993 gg. St. Petersburg, Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblitoeka, 1997.

See also Catalog of the Helsinki University Library Slavic Collection available on microfilm.

5. Private collections

Examples of important private collections

Titov, A. Opisanie Slaviano-Russkikh Rukopisei... St. Petersburg- Moscow, 1893-1913, 6 vols.

Ul'ianinskii, D.V. Biblioteka D.V. Ul'ianinskogo. Moscow, 1912-1915. 3 vols. Vol. 2 is especially valuable as a bibliography of bibliographies.

Smirnov-Sokol'skii, N.O. Moia Biblioteka. Bibliograficheskoe Opisanie. Moscow, Kniga, 1969. 2 vols. (extensive annotations)

Lesman, M.S. ET AL. Knigi I Rukopisi V Sobranii M.S. Lesmana. Annotirovannyi Katalog. Publikatsii. Moscow, Kniga, 1989.

6. Western repositories, printed catalogs

As catalogs on line are expanding printed catalogs are gradually disappearing thus Simmons (below) listing is still adequate

Simmons, J.S.G. Russian Bibliography, Libraries and Archives. A Selective List of Bibliographical References for Students of Russian History, Literature, Political, Social and Philosophical Thought, Theology, and Linguistics. Oxford, A.C. Hall, 1973, pp. 4-11.

Of note among those listed by Simmons are the catalogs of the Helsinki University Library (available on microfilm) which was a depository library for Russian imprints during the 19th century.

United States:

Slavic Cyrillic Union Catalog for Pre-1956 Imprints Totowa, NJ Rowman & Littlefield, 1980. Microfiche. It includes pre-1956 Cyrillic alphabet imprints reported to the Library of Congress by the American libraries up to 1979. It supersedes the Cyrillic Union Catalog New York, Readex Co., 1952. Microcard.

The National Union Catalog (publishers vary, the most recent is Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress) published since 1983 on microfiche.

The New York Public Library. The Research Libraries. Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic Collection. 2nd rev. and enlarged edn. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1974. 44 vols. and annual update

Bibliographic Guide to Soviet and East European Studies. 1978. Boston, G.K. Hall, 1979- , includes also items cataloged by the Library of Congress.

Among the most prominent American libraries that have Slavic research collections and published catalogs are: the Library of Congress; Harvard University; The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; the University of California, Berkeley; and the cited above New York Public Library (especially useful for detecting monographs in series). Most of the catalogs of research collections in the United States are on line and in networks such as OCLC and RLIN

Czech Republic

Russkii zagranichnyi istoricheskii arkhiv v Prage. Biblioteka. Russkii Zagranichnyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv of the Slovanska Knihovna Pri Narodni Knihovne V Praze [MICROFORM]. New York, NY : Norman Ross Publ. Co., 1992- SUPPLEMENTS: Guide

7. Serials

Catalogs of periodical collections have the primary purpose of locating titles rather than of identifying them bibliographically.

Russia

Bessonova, N.N., Nizhneva, O.N. Krupneishie Gazetnye Fondy Nauchnykh Bibliotek Strany: Annotirovannyi Ukazatel'. Moscow, MPB, 1984. An overview of 110 libraries.

Paskalova, M. et.al. Samizdat I Novaia Politicheskaia Pressa (Po Materialam Kollektsii Moskvy I Sankt-Peterburga). Moscow, 1993.

In Moscow:

Berezovskaia, I.E. et al. Materialy K Svodnomu Katalogu Periodicheskikh I Prodolzhaiushchikhsia Izdanii Rossiiskogo Zarubezh'ia V Bibliotekakh Moskvy (1917-1990 GG.). Moscow, GPIB, MPB, 1991.

Strukova, E. N. et al. Moskovskie Kollektsii Samizdata. Spravochnik. Materialy K Svobodnomu Katalogu Samizdata I Nezavisimoi Periodicheskoi Pechati. [Moscow], Iz glubin. Moskovskaia Nezavisimaia obshchestvennaia biblioteka, 1992.

Nizhneva, O.N., et al. Russkie Dorevoliutsionnye Gazety V Fondakh Gos. Biblioteki SSSR Im. V.I. Lenina, 1702-1916; Alfavitnyi Katalog. Moscow, MPB, 1977. 2 parts. 2nd rev. ed., 1986 in 5 vols.

Nizhneva, O.N., et al. Gazety Pervykh Let Sovetskoi Vlasti, 1917-1922. Svodnyi Bibliograficheskii Katalog. Moscow, MPB, 1990. 4 parts.

Lenkova, T.N. et al. Russkie Gazety Perioda 1917-1922 GG. V Fondakh Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi Biblioteki SSSR Imeni Lenina: Al'favitnyi Katalog. Moscow, MPB, 1982, 2 vols.

Vasiutina, M.I., Nechaeva, M.A. Katalog Periodicheskikh Izdanii Na Russkom Iazyke Nauchnoi Biblioteki Moskovskogo Universiteta (Po Sostoianiiu Na 1 Ianvaria 1974). Zhurnaly. Bibliograficheskii Ukazatel'. Moscow, Universitet, 1976-1977. 2 vols.
Vol. 1: Zhurnaly;
Vol.2: Prodolzhaiushchiesia izdaniia.

Rodionova, N.M. Katalog Gazet Na Russkom Iazyke, Khraniashchikhsia V Fonde Otdela Gazet Gpib (1801-1986 GG.). Vyp. 1: Russkie Dorevoliutsionnye Gazety Perioda 1801-1916 GG. Moscow, 1987. Vyp. 2 & 3: Russkie Dorevoliutsionnye Gazety I Gazety Sovetskogo Perioda 1917-1986 GG. Moscow, GPIB, 1987.

Grishina, N.A. Katalog Otechestvennykh Zhurnalov Na Russkom Iazyke za 1917-1977 GG., Khraniashchikhsia V Fondakh Gpib. [Gos. Publichnoi Istoricheskoi BibliotekI]. Moscow, GPIB, 1981.

Magerovskii, L. F. Bibliografiia Gazetnykh Sobranii Russkogo Istoricheskogo Arkhiva Za Gody 1917-1921. New York, NY, Norman Ross Pub., 1994. (Inventari Arkhiva Ministerstva vnutrennikh del v Prage. Seriia B, Inventari Russkogo istoricheskogo arkhiva. Vyp. 1)

In St. Petersburg

Kuzmin, S.A., IAkovlev, G.N. Russkie Dorevoliutsionnye Gazety V Fondakh Biblioteki Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1703-1919. Leningrad, ANL, 1984. 2 vols.

Alfavitnyi Sluzhebnyi Katalog Russkikh Dorevoliutsionnykh Gazet (1703-1916). Leningrad, SS, 1958.

Akopian, T.V., et al. Odnodnevnye Gazety SSSR, 1917-1984 (Po Fondam Gpb Im. M.E. Salykova-Shchedrina). Alfavitnyi Katalog. Leningrad, SS, 1988-1989. 3 vols.

Grigoriants, T.S. Odnodnevnye Gazety SSSR, 1917-1984, Po Fondam Gpb Im. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Leningrad, SS, 1988-1989. 3 vols.

Emigre in St.Petersburg

Alekseeva, E.E., et al. Svodnyi Katalog Russkikh Zarubezhnykh Periodicheskikh I Prodolzhaiushchikhsia Izdanii V Bibliotekakh Sankt-Peterburga (1917-1992 GG.). St. Petersburg, Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka, 1993.

United States:

National coverage

Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada. 3rd edn. Ed.E. Brown Titus. New York, H.W. Wilson Co., 1965.

continued by

New Serial Titles. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1953- 1950/70-

Smits, R. Half a Century of Soviet Serials, 1917-1968. A Bibliography and Union List of Serials Published in the USSR. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1968, 2 vols.

Schatoff, M. Half a Century of Russian Serials, 1917-1968; Cumulative Index Ofserials Published Outside the USSR. New York, Russian Book Chamber Abroad, 1970-72. 4 v.: pt. 1. 1917-1956: A-M.--pt. 2. 1917-1956: N-R.--pt. 3. 1917-1956: S-Z.--pt. 4. 1957-1968: A-Z.

Wynar, L.R. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Ethnic Newspapers and Periodicals in the United States. 2nd edn. Littleton, Libraries Unlimited, 1976.

Individual repositories

Center for Research Libraries. Soviet Serials Currently Received at the Center for Research Libraries: A Checklist. S.P. Ignashev, comp. 4th edn. Chicago, Center for Research Libraries, 1990.

Maichel, K. Soviet and Russian Newspapers at The Hoover Institution: A Catalog. Stanford, The Hoover Institution, 1966 (Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series, XXIV).

Hoskins, J.W. The USSR and East Central and Southeastern Europe: Periodicals in Western Languages. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1980. (At the Library of Congress)

Germany:

Katalog Periodicheskikh I Prodolzhaiushchikhsia Neformal'nykh Izdanii Na Russkom Iazyke V Arkhive Samizdata. 1986-1990. Ch. 1. Munich, RFE/RL Institute. Samizdat Archive, 1991. (Materialy Samizdata).

Wispelwey, B. Katalog Russkoiazychnykh Periodicheskikh Izdanii, Nakhodiashchikhsia V Sobrabiiakh Neformal'Noi I Mestnoi Pechati Issledovatel'skogo Instituta RSE/RS, 1984-1993. Munich, RFE/RL Research Institute, 1994.

Schemkova, E. Novaia Periodika I Samizdat Na Teritorii Sovetskogo Soiuza 1987-1991: Katalog Kolekstsii. Bremen, Forschungstelle Osteuropa an der Universitat Bremen, 1992.

Russian Émigré journals in France:

Bakunina, T.A. L'emigration Russe en Europe. Catalogue Collectif des Periodiques en Langue Russe, 1855-1940. Paris, Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1976 (Biblioteque Russe de l'Institut d'Etudes Slaves, Tom XL/1).

Volkoff, A.-M. same title, 1940-1970. Same publisher, 1977 (same series, Tome XL/2).