Handwritten ABC book-roll (the first half of XVII century). From the funds of Lenin State Library (presently Russian State Library).01.06.1950#721970
A lifetime edition of Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" with the author's drawings. Paris. 1836. The USSR State V.Lenin Library.01.05.1950#736451
Books by French classical authors Montesquieu, Doderot, Voltaire. The USSR State V.Lenin Library.01.05.1950#736450
Memorial archive of Dmitry Mendeleev in Leningrad University. D. I. Mendeleev's study in present-day St. Petersburg State University.05.01.1949#3319529
At the reading hall of the National Library of Belarus named after Lenin. The Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.11.09.1947#3318862
Fixing the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library roof during the rehabilitation campaign after the second world war19.05.1946#12245
Soviet film director, Merited Arts Worker of the RSFSR Grigory Aleksandrov in his study. Moscow. 1938.09.03.1938#5610278
The 1920s. The reading room at the Library of the New Philology Institute, now the Rudomino All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature. Photo courtesy of the album Moscow and Muscovites, property of the State History Museum.01.06.1922#6681607
Vladimir Stasov was an outstanding art historian, art and music critic. For more than 50 years he worked at the Public Library in St Petersburg. In 1872 he was appointed head of the Art Department, then repeatedly served as head of the library. He was one of the most influential figures in the artistic life of the post-reform era, an ideologist of the Peredvizhniki Society and the Mighty Handful.20.04.1900#8762872
The reading hall of the library of the Rumyantsev Museum (in 1925-1992 the Lenin State Library of the USSR). The photo of the late 19th century. Reproduction.10.10.1897#729132
