The Russian Fine Art Book Collection at Stanford University Libraries

ABSTRACT

The article introduces readers and scholars interested in Russian art, considered broadly, to collections housed at one of the major repositories in the United States, Stanford University Libraries (SUL), with the adjacent Hoover Institution Library (although it concentrates on SUL). In general, the two collections complement each other.

KEYWORDS:

• art
• book collection
• Hoover Institution
• library
• Russian fine arts
• Stanford University libraries

Notes

1. For more information on the history of Stanford’s collections, see Wojciech Zalewski, Collectors and Collections of Slavica at Stanford University: A Contribution to the History of American Academic Libraries (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1985).

2. The change from russkago in the earlier edition to russkogo in the later one reflects the spelling reform of 1918.