Medieval Rus': Overview

Bibliography of works on Old Russian Literature, which consists of works written in Old East Slavic or Kieven Rus'. The bibliography references monographs and articles from the history of culture of feudal Russia, works on paleography and epigraphy, studies on the origin of Russian writing and printing, archeography and textology, essays on the life and work of specialists who have contributed to the study of the history of Russian medieval literature.

The Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISL RAS), part of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is the only scientific institution in Russia to undertake the comprehensive study of the history, culture, literature and languages of foreign Slavic peoples.

This bibliography is made available by the Russian Philosophy division of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The institute's website also provides PDF-full text access to its journals and books (check for both Russian and English language materials, including the series: памятники древнерусской мысли / Monuments of Ancient Russian Thought , some volumes of which are also available at the Penn Libraries .

Project Chronos provides a bibliographic list of sources on Ancient Russia--with some full text available.

A succinct introductory explanation of medieval Rus' architecture.

Old Russian numismatics and sphragistics (the study of seals). The site is dedicated to pre-Petrine coins and hanging seals of Ancient Rus.

A numismatic catalog of Kievan Rus' coins from the Odessa Numismatics Museum.

This site appears to be unavailable as of 6/19/23
The electronic library on paleoslavistics contains descriptions of manuscript collections, dictionaries, encyclopedias, editions of ancient Slavic texts and fundamental research of the founders of paleoslavistics.
The library consists of five sections:
1. Descriptions of handwritten collections
2. Dictionaries
3.Editions of monuments of writing<
4. Reference books, monographs, encyclopedias
5. Links to Internet resources
Be sure to explore everything to take full advantage of resources available on this site.

The site comprises collections of ancient and medieval Slavonic and Russian texts; information on the developments in the field of electronic publication and methods of creation of full-text databases of hand-written treasures with complicated structure. It also includes tools and methods for contributing to and correcting text.

Includes access to etymological texts, dictionaries, and materials for the study of language.

Provides digitized primary sources on medieval Russian history (documents are wide ranging). All sources are in the original languages.

50 high-resolution maps of the ancient world freely available for download. See Pleiades for a database of geographic information related to the Greco-Roman world linked to Google Maps.

Supplemental volume of Brill's New Pauly. Includes entries related to Byzantium.

A good website for historical maps provided by edmaps.com. These maps are fully protected by international laws and copyrights. All rights are reserved. You have permission to use these maps only for your own personal non-commercial purposes or benefit or for other non-commercial educational purposes provided that you mention the source as "Source: edmaps.com ". Beware of advertising and unrelated options for clicking!

This Russian historical atlas was compiled by K.V. Kudryashov.