Book-centric picture of the world in O. Tokarchuk’s novels “The Journey of the Book-People” and “The Books of Jacob”
The authors have conducted a comparative analysis of the novels by Olga Tokarczuk, "The Journey of the People of the Book" and "The Books of Jacob,", where the conceptual role is played by motifs of travel and books, and the theme of religious-mystical societies of the 17th-18th centuries becomes significant. The genre specificity of the two texts, features ...
Library collections and publishing according to Pliny the Younger
In Rome, libraries played the role of cultural centres and were closely linked with publishing. The latter was a subject of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Suetonius. The way to the birth of a book is complicated: writing, recitation, reference-review, and proofreading. Donation was one of the ways to build up library collections. The copyright was not known to Rome. A book was treated as an intellectual value. Pliny the Younger became the ...
On M.A. Ivanova’s personal pension provision, granted for F.M. Dostoevsky’s service to the Soviet state
... the command staff), and even more so with recipients of pensions on a general basis. At the same time, the pension documents identified some unsolved problems: the reasons why the social security authorities searched M. A. Ivanova and why her pension book returned to the People’s Commissariat of Social Security of the RSFSR in January 1928, one and a half years before the officially recognized date of death.
Zhirkova M.A., Kapustina O.V/
F. M. Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky’s niece, Darovoe, the museum,...
Konigsberg Cyrillic editions of the calendars of the 1720s in the collection of the Russian State Library
... publications are studied in the article — calendars for 1727 and 1730. Copies of these publications are kept in the collection of the Russian State Library. The bibliography of these publications is analyzed, the content is examined, and copies of books are described. The analysis relies on source study, historical chronology, bibliography, book science. The Konigsberg editions of the Korven-Kvasovsky calendars are found to be original works which rely on the author’s knowledge in the field of ...
