ВивлiоѲика 2.0

Abstract

Welcome to the inaugural issue of <em>ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies</em>, published by the Eighteenth Century Russian Studies Association and Duke University Library<em>.</em><em> </em>This new, open access, electronic journal has been christened with a title written in the old, pre-Revolutionary orthography at least partly in order to honor its eighteenth-century namesake, <em>Древняя Россiйская Вивлiоѳика</em><em>,</em> the historical and literary monthly that rolled off the presses of N. I. Novikov's <em>Типографическая компания </em>over 240 years ago. And it is with the utmost humility that the editors of <em>Вивлiоѳика </em>2.0 invoke the name of, and express their intellectual debt to our secular patron saint.