This list is not complete!!! It will contain many more items
when finished...!!!
The sources below are divided for convenience into three
categories: Publishing, Distribution and Reading. But some deal
either explicitly or in effect with more than one category.
PUBLISHING
Belinskii, V. G. "Literaturnye mechtaniia," in idem, Polnoe sobranie
sochinenii (Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1953-59), I.
Belinskii, V. G. "Nichto o nichem, ili otchet g. izdateliu 'Teleskopa'
za poslednee polugodie russkoi literatury," in idem, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
(Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1953-59), II.
Belinskii, V. G. "Sto russkikh literatorov," in idem, Polnoe
sobranie sochinenii (Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1953-59), IX.
Bulgarin, F. V. "On Censorship in Russia and Book Publishing in General,"
Gogol, N. V. "O dvizhenii zhurnal'noi literatury v 1834 i 1835 godu,"
Sovremennik I (1836): 192-225.
Grech, N. I. "Istoriia pervogo entsiklopedicheskogo leksikona v Rossii,"
Russkii arkhiv, VII (1870): 1247-1272.
Karatygin, P. "Severnaia pchela, 1825-1859," Russkii arkhiv
4 (1882): 241-303.
Keppen, P.Materialy dlia istorii prosveshcheniia v Rossii, vol.
2: Bibliograficheskie listy 1825 goda (Sanktpeterburg: Meditsinskaia
tip., 1819-1827), 632-647.
Nikitenko, A. V.The Diary of a Russian Censor, Helen S.
Jacobson, trans. (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press, 1975).
Polevoi, K. A. "Vospominaniia o A. F. Smirdine," Severnaia pchela
no. 210 (1857).
Shevyrev, S. P. "Slovesnost' i torgovlia,"Moskovskii nabliudatel',
I (March 1835): 5-29.
DISTRIBUTION
Bulgarin, F. V. "Vospominaniia o dobrom knigoprodavtse, moskovskom
kuptse Vasilie Alekseeviche Plavil'shchikove," in idem, Polnoe sobranie
sochinenii (St. Petersburg: V tip. N. Grecha, 1839-44), V, 36-37.
"O knizhnoi torgovle v Rossii: iz vospominanii starogo knigoprodavtsa,"
Knizhnyi vestnik Russkogo obshchestva knigoprodavtsev i izdatelei,
no. 8 (1889): 327-346.
Ovsiannikov, N. G. "Vospominaniia starogo knigoprodavtsa o peterburgskoi
knizhnoi torgovli za piatidesiatiletie do 1870 g.," in Materialy dlia istorii
russkoi knizhnoi torgovli (St. Petersburg: Glazunov, 1879), 1-60.