Library of Russian Digital Libraries

This site is devoted to Armenian literature, the history of Armenia, and everything that concerns Armenians and Armenia.

Babylon is a collection of "elitist" literature, i.e. literature for the people who make it. Most of the texts are poetry.

A small collection (2,2 Mb): V. V. Rozanov, G. Borges (illustrated), Advice to a Young Housewife out of XIXth century.

Russian Gothic Page. It is a small but pleasant library of gothic classics and works by amateur writers. There is also a collection of images, besides electronic texts.

A neat collection of ancient & Russian classics. This site also has texts in Ancient Greek & Latin.

The EsoLib Library of Esoteric Literature is up a huge collection of contemporary and ancient esoteric literature of all times and Peoples.  The texts are published in Russian. Here one can read and download a full collection of books on Angi Yoga, works of Ye. Blavatskaya, the Roerich family, Richard Bach, and other famous writers.

Here, in the country of Inspiration you can be anybody you have been dreaming to be for a long time: a living classic, a major of some town, a businessman, a teacher and a pupil --don't be timid, fulfill your dreams!  Create, invent, try!  The site has an Internet shop of contemporary literature, a chat, a forum, a bulletin board, a dating service according to your interests. The site is centered upon the association of writers of the same name.

This Library is a full text information system containing works of literature, historical, biographic, and literature studies focusing on authors, genres, and concrete works.

A pleasant combination of southern heat and western, mainly anglosaxon style.

This site is devoted to the heritage of the "New Peasant" poets: Yesenin, Klychkov, Kluyev, Oreshin, Shiryayevets. Lots of interesting information, but many sections (except Yesenin's) are not filled yet.

The title of the site speaks for itself. Four prose writers, eleven male and female poets, one translator.

Sections: Countries, Dictionary, Confessions, Historical Personalities, Literature, WHERE`S THE AUTHOR?! A convenient site with lots of texts, but most of them were published back in the Soviet period.

Hyakunin Issyu (a hundred poems of a hundred poets). The collection was compiled by Fujivarano Teika (1162-1241) in 1235.

This site mainly contains Russian translations of Japanese literature, both contemporary and ancient, fairy tales, articles, etc.

List means a leaf or a sheet of paper in Russian. The site contains information about Krasnoyarsk writers and a small collection of their works.

A small library devoted to Christian iconography. All the texts are available on-line or in ZIP archives.

A large collection of texts on occult sciences and untraditional religion. The texts are in CP 866 encoding.

This site is devoted to the history and culture of the Far East.

A big enough library of the Orthodox church literature.

Philosophy and journalism with a strong Russian Orthodox church bias. The collection is not big, but the site looks good.

This site contains several mythological epics of the world.

A huge and convenient collection of myths which is divided into 23 section. The site features a search engine that helps you to find the information on mythological personages if this information can be found here.

An extremely active site. It is growing on the weekly basis with up to a dozen new works of unknown authors, or of those who already appeared at the site.

A pleasant, well designed site. It is devoted to the poetry (mostly) and prose of ancient and medival China, Japan, India. This site requires JavaScript.

The site of the center for spiritual renaissance in Donetsk (Ukraine). Its online library contains many texts on Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, theosophia, etc.

A fragment of Russian culture in Israel. Some prose, poetry, translations from Jewish & Engilsh.

A large collection of Russian translations of classical English poets. Some links do not lead anywhere.

This library is quite new and quite small. It is not big enough for a bookshelf yet.

The digital library of the Primorski Territory (Russian Pacific region) poets, fiction writers, and artists. Besides Russian texts this digital library collects texts in English and in the languages of the Far East.

The site is maintained by Andrei Deryabin, an associate of the Psychology Center of Novosibirsk State University. Functions since 26 February 1998.

The psychological library of the Kiev Foundation for the Development of Mental Culture contains fundamental texts on philosophy, psychology, religeon, esoteric science, culturology which are useful for those who strive for conscious self-development.

Electronic books, articles, abstracts of theses, and other texts for linguists & philologists.

The Russian text of the Bible. You can load the book you need or find the necessary place by the number of the chapter and verse.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Afanasii Fet, Boris Zaitsev, Sergei Yesenin, Nikolai Rubtsov, contemporary Russian poetry. Not much of everything. Encoding: KOI8-R.

Vlad's collection of Russian classical poetry. The library has many poets ranging Barkov and Zhukovsky to Almazov and some poets of the early 20th century.

Translations of several Russian and Soviet poets in to English. The spelling of some translations wasn`t checked.

This site is devoted to the Russian version of limericks. Here you can find a big enough collection of humor poems, and their quality is not much worse than in Britain.

The main topics of the Solaris Digital Library are psychology & psychiatry, philosophy & religion, esoterics. It is the first digital library in Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous District.

Transcedental Skamejka (park bench) is devoted to the work of Carlos Castaneda and his witches. It has a large collection of texts in Russian (mostly) and in English.

Black & red horror. This site has a large collection of texts devoted to satanism and non-traditional Christianity. There is a map of the site which makes it possible to load the text you need without spending online time on graphics.