Russian and Slavic Studies (Advanced Researchers)

Online Collection of Imperial Russian Newspapers

About the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection

From the first newspapers established by Peter the Great to the fall of the Romanovs, the Imperial Russian Newspapers collection chronicles 189 years of Russian history. From Peter the Great’s founding of the Russian empire, through the empire’s expansion during Catherine the Great, the abolishment of serfdom by Alexander II, the tumultuous years of Nicholas II, and everything in between.

The Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. With no less than 500,000 pages, the collection’s core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.

Also, check out other Russian and Slavic Studies news sources. 

For questions about this or other resources, contact Brian Vetruba, European Studies and Digital Scholarship Librarian.