The Presidential Library: New acquisitions

The Presidential Library collection “Russian people” was enriched with the materials delivered by the State Historical Public Library, Krupskaya Moscow Regional State Scientific Library, Dobrolyubov Arkhangelsk Regional Scientific Library.  

Russian historical events of the end of 16th - early 17th century. (Time of Troubles) in regions

The Time of Troubles in the Muscovy in 1604-1613. : materials, published by the Imperial Society of History and Russian Antiquities under the Moscow University. Issue 6: Monuments to the defense of Smolensk 1609-1611, Moscow, 1912 includes documents relating to the time prior to the siege of Smolensk (news from spies, reports about the situation at the border, petitions on the defense) and to the siege of the city (a letter from Smolensk to Moscow, questioning of the people who escaped the captivity and captured enemies, reports of runaways, etc.), as well as lists of different content and documents from the Polish camp.

N. Orlov's The Time of Troubles (early 17th century) and the Russian North. Arkhangelsk, 1913 is devoted to the military events in the northern regions of the European part of Russia in the era of disasters and upheavals of the early 17th century.

Monuments to the history of the Nizhny Novgorod movement in the period of troubles and national militia 1611-1612. St. Petersburg, [1912] contains a set of documentary and literary sources, covering the history of Nizhny Novgorod in the era of the Troubles.

Presuppositions of the united people's militia, certain aspects of Kuzma Minin’s biography are covered by a video lecture of representatives from the Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University: Dean of the Faculty of History, Head of the Department of historiography and source study, Doctor of Historical Sciences A. A. Kuznetsov and associate professor of historiography and source study, Candidate of Historical Sciences A. V. Morohin, To commemorate the history of Nizhny Novgorod militia of 1611-1612.

Working and revolutionary movement in Russia from 1860’s to 1917

Pictures of prison life in the late 1870's and early 1880's are described in memoirs (St. Petersburg, 1920) of two convicts of the Novobelgorod prison, revolutionaries A. V. Dolgushin and V. S. Illich-Svitych.

Volume 5: Essays, articles, speeches (Moscow, 1929) of the complete works by Vera Nikolaevna Figner contains the autobiography of a revolutionary; biographical sketches of members of secret revolutionary societies "Land and Freedom " and "Narodnaya Volya." Most of the volume is a collection of literary works of the author, which had been published from 1908 in periodicals and non-periodical press in the form of articles, feature articles, biographies or books.

The reader on the history of revolutionary movement in Russia. Leningrad, 1926. Volume 1 by a historian Yuri I. Hesse considers documents on the revolutionary movement, from the peasant reform of 1861 and to the strike of textile workers in 1896.

Professional workers' movement in Russia in its historical development (from the abolition of serfdom to the October Revolution in 1917) is presented in the book by P. Grinevitch (Moscow, 1923. Issue 1).

The history of development of the working class in Russia before the February Revolution of 1917 is described in Sketches on the history of proletariat of the USSR. The proletariat of imperial Russia. Moscow, 1931.

Preparation of new materials for the collection continues.