Saint Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Mainly on the basis of material from archives in St Petersburg, this article presents a classification and chronology of early printed blank forms in Russia, attributing their continuous history to Petrine initiatives from c.1714. Such “ephemera”, it is argued, constitute important but neglected components of Russian print culture and administrative practice.This is the accepted manuscript for a paper published in Russian History, Volume 42, Issue 1, pages 114 – 135, doi: 10.1163/18763316-0420101
