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Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The famous Russian composer, Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), wrote a number of operas. The Library of Congress has a copy of his first opera, “The Maid of Pskov,” in an 1892 edition that originally belonged to the Russian imperial family, the Romanovs.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
A Library of Congress historian looks at the real Queen Charlotte, consort to King George III of Britain, in contrast to the fictitious “Bridgerton” royal.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Reference librarian Matt Young describes his work at the Library of Congress as the Russian Specialist in the European Division.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Thomas Mann‘s emigration to the United States in 1938 was one of many watersheds in a turbulent life. An important part of this life-change was his association with the Library of Congress from 1941 to 1952.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
English kings ruled Aquitaine from the 12th to the 15th centuries. There is still architectural evidence of English influence in that part of France.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
19th-century Danish immigrants to the United States held differing religious views.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
The 11th Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford was instrumental in the early development of the international collections at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Virtual interns at the European Division of the Library of Congress, summer 2020.
Posted in: European Reading Room, Junior Fellows
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Rare Book & Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress has one of only thirteen known copies of the radical Alexander Radishchev’s banned 1790 novel “Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu” (A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow).
Posted in: European Reading Room