@article{bibcite_9638,
  author = {Harold M. Leich},
  title = {The Czar{\textquoteright}s Library: Books from Russian Imperial Palaces at the Library of Congress},
  abstract = {<p>In the 1930s and early 1940s the Library of Congress (LC) acquired 2,800 volumes from the libraries of the tsars and their families, books from the imperial palaces in and around St. Petersburg. While the overall facts about this interesting and unusual acquisition by LC have been known for some time, many of the details remain mysterious and controversial. The study of the acquisition of the "Russian Imperial Collection" and of its subsequent fate at LC reveals a number of interesting details about the library both then and now. The aim of this article is to review the story of LC{\textquoteright}s acquisition of the collection; to place the sales within the larger context of what was happening in Russian acquisitions at the Library of Congress; and to present some new archival evidence relating to the sales of the imperial volumes.</p>},
  year = {2009},
  journal = {Canadian- American Slavic Studies},
  volume = {51},
  pages = {387-418},
  language = {English},
}