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Academic collections of Russian classics posted online

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Academic collections of Russian classics posted online


15.11.2018

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Works, diaries and letters of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Turgenev and other Russian writers as well as the best Soviet literary critics' comments can be read on a smartphone now. The complete collections of twelve Russian writers of the 18th and 19th centuries are available on the site launched by the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences.

The ten volumes of Alexander Pushkin, the thirty volumes of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the fifteen volumes book of Nikolay Nekrasov, the twenty volumes of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, the collection of Gogol’s works in fourteen volumes are bibliographical rarities kept in public libraries or in philologists collections. Academic publications prepared by the Soviet philology experts are unique not only by the collected texts but also by the commentaries to them.

The works of Russian classics have always been available in home libraries, bookstores and online. However, the complete collections, letters, diaries, unfinished works were available only in libraries.

The Pushkin House website allows reading the volumes, downloading and installing them on a smartphone or tablet. The online collection of books contains scanned copies of pages and cover.

Internet versions of academic collections will also help researchers with references to the writers' quotes.

In addition to the mentioned authors, the electronic library contains collections of works by Mikhail Lermontov, Vissarion Belinsky, Vasily Kapnist, Alexander Radishchev, Feofan Prokopovich, and Gleb Uspensky.

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