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Princeton Slavic Collections

Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of Russia, Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union.

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Princeton University Library holds the seventh largest collections of Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies (SEEES) materials in the United States — the fifth largest in the Northeast. These collections include many rare and unique materials from or related to Eastern Europe and former Soviet territories, a selection of which are remotely accessible to interested researchers through the Library’s digital portals.
Among the collections’ brightest gems now made freely accessible via digitization are the papers of Russian poet Osip Mandel’shtam, annotated volumes of Russian poetry from the library of Vladimir Nabokov (including the working copy of Eugene Onegin he used when preparing his famous translation), selections from the Cotsen Children’s Library’s holdings of Soviet-era children’s books, and a selection of early twentieth-century Russian illustrated periodicals. 

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Princeton University Library claims no copyright governing this digital resource. It is provided for free, on a non-commercial, open-access basis, for fair-use academic and research purposes only. Anyone who claims copyright over any part of these resources and feels that they should not be presented in this manner is invited to contact Princeton University Library, who will in turn consider such concerns and make reasonable efforts to respond to such concerns.

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[Identification of item], [Sub-collection name (if applicable)], Princeton Slavic Collections Collection, Princeton University Library.

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