(This post is by Michael Neubert, Head of the European Reading Room.) In the European Reading Room college and graduate students often look for primary sources that they can use to support their research projects. Primary sources such as photographs, letters, and newspaper articles “provide an original source of information about an era or event.” …
(This post is by Hannah Benson, former intern in the European Reading Room.) Zinaida Gippius was one of the many women writers in nineteenth-century Russia who ignored the societal restrictions placed upon her. Although born into privilege as the daughter of a well-respected lawyer, she had an undeniable talent and a fearless personality all her …
This post describes the Library's, Ostroh Bible, the first complete printed bible in Church Slavic and the first one in Cyrillic type, which has been recently digitized by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
