Welcome to a collection on early 19th-century Russian readership,
culture & the press. It consists of: a) TEXTS drawn from
fiction, journals, memoirs & travel accounts; and b)
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS—bibliographies of primary and
secondary sources, a database of 11,898 subscriptions to Russian
imprints (1825-1846), images, and various reference
materials.
Compiler: Miranda Beaven Remnek, Head, Slavic & East European
Library, and Professor of Library Administration (mremnek@uiuc.edu) Assistant: Jessica Shelvik Former Assistants: Alison Behnke, Kevin Hawkins, Michelle
Yarmakov, Vika Thorstensson
NOTE ON ACCESS:
Web Approach: Located on this page are links to text files on the
text server, database files on the database server, and web/image files on
the web server. For access, follow the links below.
Topic Map Approach: For an experimental topic map providing unified
links by topic to different occurrences across the archive, read about the
ENCRRC Topic Map.
GIS Overlay: We are now experimenting with the application
of a GIS-based geographic visualization in
association with our large subscription database that includes multi-facted
social data and also 272 place names.
Primary Texts
This section on texts is divided by type. For lists grouped by author,
see:
master list (a full record of titles selected
for inclusion; to be processed as time permits)
Note on Text Encoding:
This project enriches its texts using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language),
according to guidelines from the TEI. In particular, we use analytical encoding for
added value beyond keyword searching. In this respect our encoding corresponds
to Level 5 (Scholarly Encoding Projects) of the TEI Text Encoding in Libraries:
Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices endorsed by the Digital Library
Federation. However, Level 5 status assumes Level 4 (Basic Content Analysis).
We are reviewing our structural encoding to fully comply with Level 5. For more
details, consult our Text Encoding Overview.
