Russian Literature

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A good way to find archive material on russian literature is to use the search on the Hub and select 'Subjects', then enter 'russian literature'

You will see there are 65 results that you could look at, for this subject search, but you could also browse through archive collections that have the subject terms Russian Drama, Russian Language or Russian Poetry.

If you select 'russian literature' you will see that the majority of these collections are held in Leeds University Library Special Collections, where the Leeds Russian Archive is held. These collections hold a variety of materials in English and Russian.

Here are four collections that you might be interested in:

• Natalia Kodrianskaia papers: comprises literary works, reviews, letters, and documents by, or relating to, Natalia Kodrianskaia, Ivan Bunin and Aleksei Remizov
• Vladimir Nabokov Papers: photocopies of letters, postcards and one manuscript.
• Lev Tolstoi Papers: postcards, notes, letters and a L. N. Tolstoi text extract about bees.
• Leonid Andreev Papers: personal and literary papers, correspondence, and photographs, together with printed biographical and critical material
• Programmes of Leonid Andreev play productions: Programme of Leonid Andreev,"He Who Gets Slapped" production, Leeds, [1958]; (2) Photocopies of reviews of Leonid Andreev,"He Who Gets Slapped" productions, Oxford and Hampstead, 1963-1964; (3) Programme of Leonid Andreev,"Liubov' k blizhnemu" production, Glasgow, 1994

Copac

Copac has a large amount of Russian and East European Studies materials which were added as part of part of the COCOREES project and subsequent Cofor project. You will find large collections of Russian and East European Studies held at the university libraries at Birmingham, Bradford, Leeds, Cambridge, Essex and UCL.

Copac can display Cyrillic characters and you can search Copac using Cyrillic as well. Cyrillic characters usually appear within the records from more recently published items, and you will often see a transliterated or English version of the record too. To have a look, go to Copac, select 'Search Copac' and enter the author 'leonid andreev', you return approximately 350 records, many of which are in the original Russian.

I searched Copac for journals on russian literature and returned nearly 1600 results. (You can limit your search on Copac to material type)

• Literaturnyi zhurnal "a". Journal on 20th Century Russian Literature.
• Vestnik Evropy. Journal on 19th Century Russian Literature and Civilisation
• Modern Russian literature and culture: studies and texts.
• Russkoe bogatstvo: literatura, iskusstvo, kultura. Journal on 20th Century Russian Literature.