Comments: SPOFFISH.

Did you know that there is Slavonic Collection in Helsinki University Library?
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/services/collections/slavonic.htm
(I worked there few years ago. If you have some tough questions for them you can write to:
hyk-slav@helsinki.fi)
And there are some special collections, too,
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/services/collections/specialcoll.htm
Well, just a thought. Or two.

Posted by Rara Luna at April 26, 2003 06:21 PM

Wow! From the Slavonic collection I got to The Finnish Historical Newspaper Library 1771 -1860 (for which the index page contains the delightful sentence "Information may contain erros"). Now I'm going to investigate some more. Thanks again, Rara!

Posted by language hat at April 26, 2003 11:43 PM

All the dissertations of the Univ. of Helsinki are online in PDF form. I'm definitely going to be looking at "Four Ways of Writing the City": St. Petersburg-Leningrad as a Metaphor in the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky by Maija Könönen and Čto i to v povesti Staruha Daniila Harmsa [This and that in The Old Woman, a short story by Daniil Kharms] by Jussi Heinonen.

Posted by language hat at April 26, 2003 11:53 PM