Imperial Russia Also, see ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES
PORTALS, ONLINE DATABASES:
Российская империя. Справочник - RU
[Russian Empire. Statistics]. An online reference work providing statistical data on pre-revolutionary Russia. It covers a wide range of topics including politics, economics, trade, fnance, army, education. Full text is available on Protown.ru
Alexander Palace Time Machine - EN
A popular English-language website for Romanov and Russian history. The collection includes books, many interesting articles and various documents, letters, and images from the Alexander Palace Archive.
Динамика экономического и социального развития России в XIX – начале ХХ вв. - RU
[Dynamics of economic and social development in Russia in 19th and early 20th centuries] This informative online resource is a project developed by the Faculty of History at the Moscow State University.
Виртуальный музей декабристов - RU
A virtual museum dedicated to the Decembrist revolt (December 1825), an unsuccessful uprising against the newly-appointed Tsar Nicholas I. The collection includes various documents, articles, memoirs, and images.
Библиотека интернет-проекта «1812 год» - EN
This website is devoted to the Patriotic War of 1812. The collection includes bibliography, articles, memoirs, listings, documents, historical novels etc.
История России до 1917 года - RU
[Russian History before 1917] An online reference work on Russiahistory.ru
BOOKS:
Лотман Ю. Беседы о русской культуре. Быт и традиции русского дворянства (XVIII-начало XIX века) - RU
[Talks about Russian culture] by Yuri Lotman. Free full text available online on Gumer.info
Антология педагогической мысли России XVIII в. - RU
[Anthology of Russian educational thought in 18th century]. Moscow, 1985. Full text available on Pedagogic.ru
Л.М.Савелов. История русского дворянства - RU
[History of the Russian nobility] by L.M. Savelov.
Э.А. Павлюченко. В добровольном изгнании. О жёнах и сёстрах декабристов - RU
[In self-imposed exile. About the wives and sisters of the Decembrists] by E.A. Pavlyuchenko. Free full text available on Bibliotekar.ru
Российские университеты XVIII - первой половины XIX века в контексте университетской истории Европы
[Russian Universities in the 18th - 1st half of 19th century] by A. Andreev. The online version is available at E-reading.co.uk
ARTICLES:
Сюрпризы на пирах Петра Великого - RU
[Surprises at the feasts of Peter the Great] by M. Voznesensky on Gumer.info
The Locus of the Fashion Shop in Russian Literature from 1764 to 1806. - EN
Published in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Number 3, Spring 2013, pp.363-383. The Johns Hopkins University Press Project MUSE
The article by Victoria Ievleva examines the evolution in the cultural perception of the fashion shop in eighteenth-century Russian literature. Full text available on Academia.edu
Дома трудолюбия. История создания в XIX веке работных домов и домов призрения.- RU
[Russian workhouses] by E.Khraponicheva about the history of Russian workhouses, institutions in which the dependent and/or needy were housed, fed and set to work.
IMAGE BANKS:
A collection of drawings, prints and paintings from Hermitage Museum.
Image gallery (State Hermitage Museum) - EN
The database includes numerous portraits of Russian aristocracy.
Старая реклама – первая реклама в дореволюционной России - RU
An interesting collection of Russian pre-revolutionary commercial posters
Социальная реклама в царской России - RU
Social advertising in Tsarist Russia. A collection of posters on Propagandahistory.ru
Социальная реклама в России в годы Первой мировой войны - RU
Social advertising in Russia during the World War I. A collection of posters on Propagandahistory.ru
