Katya Rogatchevskaia

Dr Katya Rogatchevskaia

Position: Lead Curator East European Collections
Specialism: Russian studies
Department: Collections
Related Offices: Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services (chair)

Research interests:

Research interests: Russian medieval literature; Russian emigré writers; Mark Aldanov. Information policy of the Russian Federation. History of the British Library Slavonic collections; digitisation of Slavonic material. Use of electronic resources.

Publications

‘The collection of Russian Émigré literature (1853-1917) in the British Library', Solanus. New Series, Vol. 20, 2006, 55-71.
Igor's Tale (2008), Avvakum Petrov (2010), Avvakum Petrov: Zhitie protopopa Avvakuma im samim napisannoe i drugie ego sochineniia [The Life of Avvakum, written by himself] (2010), Mark Aldanov (2015), Vera Muromtseva-Bunina (2018), and Svetlana Alexievich (2019) for The Literary Encyclopedia (ISSN 1747-678X)
Associate editor – ‘The Book in the Slavonic and the East European World’ for Oxford Companion for the Book, ed. by Michael Suarez and HW Woudhuysen (OUP, 2010).
'The Balkans' (with Aleksandra B. Vraneš). The Book : A Global History (ed. Michael Suarez and HW Woudhuysen), (OUP, 2013), 502-511.
'Mark Aldanov v zhurnale “Sovremennye Zapiski”', Vokrug redaktsionnogo arkhiva “Sovremennykh zapisok," Parizh, 1920-1940: sbornik stateĭ i materialov (ed. O. Korostelev, M. Shruba). (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010).
‘”Sovremennye zapiski, s kotorymi ia tak sviazan”… M.A. Aldanov’ (publication and commentaries), “Sovremennye zapiski” [Parizh, 1920-1940]: iz arkhiva redaktsii (ed. O. Korostelev, M. Shruba). Vol.2. (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2012), 32-132. SBN: 978-5-86793-801-7.
“Don’t Panic: Reading literature in the Digital Age” in: The Edge of the Precipice Why Read Literature in the Digital Age? (ed.Paul Socken). (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013), 192-206. ISBN 9780773541788.
‘“The most important books which, I would strongly recommend to acquire” <…> : Petr Kropotkin and Vladimir Burtsev in correspondence with the British Museum Library’ eBLJ 2013, Article 9

The Russian collections at the British Museum Library and the British Museum staff: materials of the British Library corporate archives, 1860s-1920s, Solanus, New Series, Vol. 23, 2013, 64-102.
‘Foreign donations and acquisitions suggestions in the British Library collections: a case of self-promotion or an attempt at cultural and ideological infiltration? (A Russian case study)’, Migrating Heritage : Experiences of Cultural Networks and Cultural Dialogue in Europe (ed. Perla Innocenti) (Ashgate, 2014), 255-266. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2281-1.
‘UK-Russian Relations: Through the British Library Looking Glass’, Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies Digest, Autumn 2014, 9–12.
'“A Beautiful, Tremendous Russian Book, and Other Things Too”: An Overview of Rare Russian Books from the Diaghilev-Lifar Collection in the British Library', Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2017, Volume 51, Issue 2-3, 376 – 397.
Russian Revolution: Hope, tragedy, Myths (ed.). (British Library, 2017).
'Revolution Collected and Curated Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths at the British Library', Slavic & East European Information Resources, 19:3-4 (2018), 175-200, DOI: 10.1080/15228886.2018.1538862

Subjects

Illustration of Russian peasant girls sitting on a fence.

Slavonic studies

Resources for the study of Slavonic countries past and present