TY - JOUR AU - John McNair BT - The Slavonic and East European Review IS - April LA - English N1 - 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. PY - 1992 SP - 213 EP - 227 T2 - The Slavonic and East European Review TI - The Reading Library and the Reading Public: The Decline and Fall of Biblioteka Dlia Chteniia VL - 70 ER -