Chronicles 189 years of Russian history, from the first newspapers established by Peter the Great to the fall of the Romanovs. Includes out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The collection’s core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.
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