This article is based on a paper presented in San Francisco, California on December 5, 2015 at the 22nd Meeting of Friends of the Museum of Russian Culture. This is translated from the original Czech. The author’s thanks are owed particularly to the Chief Archivist of the Museum of Russian Culture, Margarita Meniailenko.The text deals with the collections of the Slavonic Library (a section of the National Library of the Czech Republic) that are connected with the theme of Russian emigration. Besides the history of the Slavonic Library, whose creation in 1924 is associated with the project of systematic help to Russian émigrés (the so-called Russian Action), it also describes the structure and composition of the exceptionally rich collection related to Russian émigrés. In addition, it characterizes the methods of making documents accessible to researchers, and the system of Slavonic Library catalogues and digitization projects concerning emigration documents from 1918–1945.
BT - Slavic & East European Information Resources IS - 3 LA - English N2 -This article is based on a paper presented in San Francisco, California on December 5, 2015 at the 22nd Meeting of Friends of the Museum of Russian Culture. This is translated from the original Czech. The author’s thanks are owed particularly to the Chief Archivist of the Museum of Russian Culture, Margarita Meniailenko.The text deals with the collections of the Slavonic Library (a section of the National Library of the Czech Republic) that are connected with the theme of Russian emigration. Besides the history of the Slavonic Library, whose creation in 1924 is associated with the project of systematic help to Russian émigrés (the so-called Russian Action), it also describes the structure and composition of the exceptionally rich collection related to Russian émigrés. In addition, it characterizes the methods of making documents accessible to researchers, and the system of Slavonic Library catalogues and digitization projects concerning emigration documents from 1918–1945.
PY - 2018 SP - 174 EP - 187 T2 - Slavic & East European Information Resources TI - The Slavonic Library in Prague: Its History and Russian Émigré Collections VL - 17 ER -