Exhibitions

The NLR welcomes you to the on-line gallery. Here you can find a presentation of several exhibitions held at the library.

Manuscripts

• RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN ECCLESIASTICAL RELATIONS
• THE CODEX SINAITICUS AND THE MANUSCRIPTS OF MT SINAI IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA
• EARLY QUR’ANS OF THE J.-J. MARCEL COLLECTION
• CULTURAL HERITAGE OF EUROPE IN COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA
• 950 YEARS OF THE OSTROMIR GOSPEL

Maps

• ATLANT OF WORLD CARTOGRAPHY. 500th Anniversary of Gerardus Mercator ^new!
• A REMARKABLE TRIAD: THE SCIENCE, ART AND EDUCATION. Publishing activity of A. Ilyin's Cartographic Establishment ^new!
• FOUR MAPS of WORLD WAR II
• LOMONOSOV AND THE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
• A MIRROR OF THE WORLD: FIVE CENTURIES OF GEOGRAPHICAL ATLASES
• MAPS OF LENINGRAD OBLAST
• KRONSTADT. 300 YEARS OF ITS FOUNDING
• TSARSKOE SELO. (THE TOWN OF PUSHKIN)
• SIBERIA MAPPING

Photographs

• LENINGRAD DURING WORLD WAR II
• ALONG THE BANKS OF THE VOLGA RIVER

Postcards

• ACADEMY OF ARTS ON POSTCARDS OF THE 1900s-1930s
• EARLY EASTER POSTCARDS
• EARLY NEW YEAR'S AND CHRISTMAS PICTURE-CARDS
• NEW YEAR'S AND CHRISTMAS POSTCARDS BY ELISABETH BEM
• NEW YEAR'S AND CHRISTMAS PICTURE-CARDS OF THE 1950s - 1980s
• NEW YEAR'S PICTURE-CARDS OF 1957
• WINTER SPORTS
• HAPPY NEW YEAR, SAINT PETERSBURG!
  On display is the collage of twenty postcards with winter views of our city.
  For a larger image, click on a postcard.
• ST. PETERSBURG ON RUSSIAN POSTCARDS
• POSTCARDS OF THE 1920s - 1930s

Prints

• RUSSIA BEHIND THE URALS: Engravings and Lithographs of the 18th - 20th Centuries ^new!
• SAINT PETERSBURG. PRINTS OF THE PAST. The 20th Century Graphic Art in the Collections of the National Library of Russia
• THE 15-18TH CENTURY WOMEN'S FRENCH COURT DRESS
• GLAMOUR AND ELEGANCE OF THE PAST CENTURIES.
  (RUSSIAN WOMAN IN ENGRAVINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS)
• SAINT PETERSBURG IN GRAFIC ARTS OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY
• PAKHOMOV ALEXEY FEDOROVICH. FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
• RESULTS OF RESTORATION WORKS

Posters

• ROAD TO VICTORY. The Second World War Posters and Postcards

Applied Graphics

• BOOKPLATES AND PRINTER'S MARKS BY ARTISTS OF THE WORLD OF ART ASSOCIATION IN THE PRINTS DEPARTMENT COLLECTIONS
• RUSSIAN DESK GAMES OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Rare Books

• COLLECTION OF BIBLES FROM THE RARE BOOKS DEPARTMENT'S HOLDINGS ^new!
• GRANSTREM'S PUBLISHING COMPANY ^new!
• FIVE CENTURIES OF HISTORY OF ELSEVIER IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF RUSSIA
• EARLY PRINTED CYRILLIC BOOKS. ABC Books, Primers, Grammars, Dictionaries of the 16-17 Centuries

Foreign and Russian Books of the 16th to 21th Centuries

• FROM THE DEPOSITORY OF RUSSIA'S CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ^new!
• IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWN RUSSIA: "Rossica" and "Russian Abroad" in the collections of the National Library
• 210 YEARS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
• RUSSIA AND FRANCE. THROUGH THE YEARS AND BORDERS
• JAPAN: THE FACES OF TIME
• WORLD OF THE WOMAN
• GOETHE AND PUSHKIN
• FORCE - IN JUSTICE. OMAR KHAYYAM. 950 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF BIRTH

Periodicals

• FASHION BULLETINS. History of Fashion Magazines Published in Russia ^new!

Plekhanov House Collections

• RUSSIA AT THE TURNING POINT. RECOLLECTIONS, THOUGHTS, EVALUATIONS. LOOKING FROM ABROAD ^new!