@article{bibcite_11580, author = {John McNair}, title = {The Reading Library and the Reading Public: The Decline and Fall of Biblioteka Dlia Chteniia}, year = {1992}, journal = {The Slavonic and East European Review}, volume = {70}, pages = {213-227}, note = {The Biblioteka dlia chteniia was a Russian monthly magazie founded in 1834 in St. Petersburg. It published Russian and translated literature, literary news and criticism, history, and popular science, serving as a "reading library" for the reading public. Examines the decline of the publication in the 1860s, decades after its heyday. }, language = {English}, }