Manuscripts
Manuscripts

Manuscripts holdings is one of the world's richest collections of written landmarks of national and world culture from ancient Egyptian papyri to autographs of our contemporaries. The manuscripts held by the National Library of Russia comprise of over 1400 private archives and collections that today number more than 450 000 valuable items for all periods and countries.
Rare Books
Rare Books

The library's stock of rare books contains more than 70 000 volumes. An appreciable portion of those are incunabula (books printed before 1501): about 7 000 works. The library has no rival for its stock of early Russian printed books and Slavonic incunabula, it also holds a large amount of West European publications from the 16th and 17th century. The most remarkable among collections are Aldine editions of the 15th - 16th centuries and Elseviers produced by the celebrated 17th/century Dutch family firm. The Rare Books Department can boast Voltaire's Library, the unique monument of 18th century culture, that is one of some well surviving private libraries of that time.
Maps
Maps

The National Library's collection of printed maps and atlases is the second largest in the country, comprising more than 180,000 items printed in Russia and abroad from the sixteenth century to the present. It incudes maps, atlases, reproductions of manuscripts, globes, electronic cartographic publications.
Graphic Materials
Graphic Materials

The prints collections today number more than 1.26 million items. These include: albums, books, Ex Libris, photographs, posters, postcards, Russian and West European Prints
Photographs
Photographs

A unique photographic collection of the Prints Department is a true chronicle of the life of Russia since the second half of the 19th . It includes portraits from the 1850s, photographic views of cities and other places since the 1850s, photos on various subjects from the 1860s, photographic reproductions of works of art.
- Leningrad during World War II
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Books
Books

The exhibitions presents material from several collections:
Russian Books
Foreign Books
Russian Periodicals
Literature of Asian and African Countries
Literature of the Peoples the Russian Federation
"Plekhanov House".
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A Remarkable Triad: the Science, Art and Education

Publishing activity of A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment

Maps on Postcards

Plan of the city of Moscow.
Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, after 1896.
1 sheet. 9х14 cm. Colour.
Postcard.
K 3-М 1/130

Plan of the city of Kostroma.
Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, after 1896.
1 sheet. 9х14 cm. Colour.
Postcard.
K 3-М 1/130

Plan of the city of Odessa.
Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, after 1896.
1 sheet. 9х14 cm. Colour.
Postcard.
K 3-Plan 1/626

Volga Riva.
Compiled by N.A. Petrovsky.-1:15 000 000.- Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Lithography,
[1902].
1 sheet. 9х14 cm. Colour.
Coats of arms of Russia and the ten Volga Provinces.
K 3-РоссЕ 1/713
Postcard.

Caucasia.
-1:10 300 000.- Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, [1902].
1 sheet. 9х14 cm. Colour.
K 3-Kav 1/232
Postcard.

Amur Riva.
Compiled by N.A. Petrovsky.-1:19 000 000.- Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, after 1901.
1 sheet. 9х14 cm. Colour.
Coats of arms of Russia and three Siberian regions.
K 3-Sib 1/124
Postcard.

Transport Lines of St.Petersburg.
Compiled by N.A. Petrovsky.- 1:84 000. - Saint Petersburg: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, 1911.
1 sheet. 18х14,5 cm, 9x14,5 cm. Colour.
K 3-Pb1/261
Postcard.

[Maps of the Theatre of Operations in World War I].
-1:8 000 000.- Petrograd: A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment, [1914].
18х14 cm. Colour.
K 3-Evr 1/619
Postcards.