Collection Items

  • Book/Printed Material
    Russian Poland, Lithuania and White Russia. "Appendix [p. 141-142]: Declarations of Polish and Lithuanian parties on the Lithuanian question." "Authorities": p. 143-144.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 160 pages

  • Map
    Magnus ducatus Lithuania in suos palatinatus et castellanias divisa, non solum accuratissime delineata, sed etiam plurimis in aliis mappis omissis locis aucta Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Lotter's Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales. Augsburg : Tobie Conrad Lotter, Matthieu Seutter, et Jan-Michel Probst ; Nuremburg : Heritiers de Homan, 1778. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Lotter, Georg Friedrich - Lotter, Tobias Conrad
    • Date: 1778-01-01
  • Map
    Geograficheskoĭ atlasʺ Rossiĭskoĭ Imperii, T︠S︡arstva Polʹskago i Velikago kni︠a︡zhestva Finli︠a︡ndskago.
    Географической атласъ Россiйской Имперiи, Царства Польскаго и Великаго княжества Финляндскаго.
    Presented here is the Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo (Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev (1758-1835), it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of the 19th century.…
    • Contributor: Iwanoff - Ieremin - Russia. General Staff. Military Topographical Depot - Finaghenof - Pi︠a︡dyshev, Vasiliĭ Petrovich - Faleleef
    • Date: 1827-01-01
    • Resource: - 62 pages

  • Map
    Generalʹnai︠a︡ Karta Vilenskoĭ Gubernii Sʺ pokazaniemʺ pochtovykhʺ i bolʹshikhʺ proi︠e︡zzhikhʺ dorogʺ, stant︠s︡iĭ i razstoi︠a︡nii︠a︡ mezhdu onymi verstʺ.
    Генеральная Карта Виленской Губернiи Съ показанiемъ почтовыхъ и большихъ проѣзжихъ дорогъ, станцiй и разстоянiя между оными верстъ.
    This 1820 map of Vilnius Provinceis from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo(Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of…
    • Contributor: Iwanoff - Russia. General Staff. Military Topographical Depot - Pi︠a︡dyshev, Vasiliĭ Petrovich
    • Date: 1820-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Map
    Generalʹnai︠a︡ Karta Rossiĭskoĭ Imperii i prisoedinennykhʺ kʺ onoĭ T︠S︡arstva Polʹskago i Velikago Kni︠a︡zhestva Finli︠a︡ndskago. sʺ oznacheniemʺ razstoi︠a︡nii︠a︡ verstʺ po pochtovymʺ dorogamʺ mezhdu gubernskimi gorodami; a v pogranichnykhʺ gubernii︠a︡kh otʺ gubernskago goroda do …
    Генеральная Карта Россiйской Имперiи и присоединенныхъ къ оной Царства Польскаго и Великаго Княжества Финляндскаго. съ означенiемъ разстоянiя верстъ по почтовымъ дорогамъ между губернскими городами; а в пограничныхъ губернiях отъ губернскаго города до дальнѣйшихъ уѣздныхъ городовъ и до иностранныхъ границъ; съ таблицею круговаго разстоянiя верстъ между знатнѣйшими 73-мя городами.
    This 1827 map of the Russian Empire is from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo (Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the…
    • Contributor: Russia. General Staff. Military Topographical Depot - Ieremin - Pi︠a︡dyshev, Vasiliĭ Petrovich
    • Date: 1827-01-01
    • Resource: - 1 page
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Avgustovskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Августовская губерния.
    This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of…

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vilenskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Виленская губерния.
    This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of…

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Kovenskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Ковенская губерния.
    This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of…

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vitebskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Витебская губерния.
    This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of…

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vitebskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Витебская губерния.
    This early-19th century playing card is from a set of 60 such cards, each devoted to a different province or territory of the Russian Empire, which at the time included the Grand Duchy of Finland, Congress Poland, and Russian America. One side of each card shows the local costume and the provincial coat of arms; the other side contains a map. This card depicts…
    • Contributor: Gribanov, K. M.
    • Date: 1800-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Vilʹnenskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Вильненская губерния.
    This early-19th century playing card is from a set of 60 such cards, each devoted to a different province or territory of the Russian Empire, which at the time included the Grand Duchy of Finland, Congress Poland, and Russian America. One side of each card shows the local costume and the provincial coat of arms; the other side contains a map. This card depicts…
    • Contributor: Gribanov, K. M.
    • Date: 1800-01-01
    • Resource: - 2 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Akathist Hymn for Saint Barbara. Akafist Sviatieĭ velikomuchenitsie Varvarie (The Akathist hymn for Saint Barbara) honors the Holy Great Martyr Barbara of Heliopolis (died 305), whose relics were transferred from Constantinople to Kiev early in the 12th century and have been kept there ever since. She is regarded as the saint who protects against sudden, unexpected death; her feast day is December 4. The hymn was printed for the…
    • Contributor: Krokovskii, Ioasaf, 1718
    • Date: 1788-01-01
    • Resource: - 122 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    The First Russian Book Printer, 1583. This book, published in Kiev in 1895, is a short biography of Ivan Fyodorov (circa 1510--83), intended for the general reader. Along with Schweipolt Fiol and Francysk Skaryna, Fyodorov was one of the fathers of printing in the East Slavic region. He graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and later worked in Moscow, where he published liturgical works using movable type, the first…
    • Contributor: Andrievskii, A.
    • Date: 1895-01-01
    • Resource: - 32 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Alexander I and 1812. This album is a two-volume collection of photo-tint prints published by the Obrazovanie (Education) association in 1911 to mark the centenary of the year 1812, when the Russians defeated the invasion by the Grande Armée of the French emperor Napoleon. The album focuses on the reign of Alexander I (1777-1825), grandson of Catherine the Great, who was tsar of Russia from 1801 to 1825.…
    • Date: 1911-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Images of the Grand Ducal Radzivill Family from the Originals in the Treasury Collection.
    Icones Familiae Ducalis Radivilianae ex originalibus in Ganzophylacio ordinationis desumptae
    Icones Familiae Ducalis Radivilianae ex originalibus in Ganzophylacio ordinationis desumptae (Images of the Grand Ducal Radzivill Family from the originals in the Treasury Collection) is an album containing 165 portraits of the members of the Radzivill family from the period 1346--1780. The Radzivills produced more outstanding political, church, military, and cultural figures than any other family in the history of the Grand Duchy of…
    • Contributor: Leybowicz, Hirsz,post 1785
    • Date: 1875-01-01
    • Resource: - 348 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Trakai Castle Court Year Book for 1660--61. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Trakai (Lithuania). Castle Court
    • Date: 1660-01-01
    • Resource: - 1749 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Zemaitija Land Court Year Book for 1592. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Emaitija (Lithuania). Land Court
    • Date: 1592-01-01
    • Resource: - 773 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Kaunas Municipal Acts Year Books for 1555--64. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Lithuania. Kaunas Municipal Government
    • Date: 1555-01-01
    • Resource: - 438 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Zemaitija Castle Court Year Book for 1646--47. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Emaitija (Lithuania). Land Court
    • Date: 1646-01-01
    • Resource: - 683 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Zemaitija Land Court Year Book for 1596. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Emaitija (Lithuania). Land Court
    • Date: 1596-01-01
    • Resource: - 551 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Trakai Castle Court Year Book for 1677--78. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Trakai (Lithuania). Castle Court
    • Date: 1677-01-01
    • Resource: - 3543 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Kaunas Land Court Year Books for 1581--83. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Kaunas (Lithuania). Land Court
    • Date: 1581-01-01
    • Resource: - 1524 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Zemaitija Land Court Year Book for 1597. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Emaitija (Lithuania). Land Court
    • Date: 1597-01-01
    • Resource: - 410 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Ukmerge Castle Court Year Book for 1595 and Some Records for 1686--88. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Ukmergė (Lithuania). Castle Court
    • Date: 1595-01-01
    • Resource: - 284 pages

  • Book/Printed Material
    Zemaitija Land Court Year Book for 1604. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland, and Russia. In the Union of Lublin of 1569, the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland merged to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The commonwealth had a highly developed legal and administrative…
    • Contributor: Emaitija (Lithuania). Land Court
    • Date: 1604-01-01
    • Resource: - 295 pages