A solid collection of iconographic materials exists. The series, contributed to by prominent Russian art historians, discuss the arts not only of Russia but also of other regions of the former Soviet Union such as Georgia, Ukraine, Mordovia, Tatar, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Monographic series for the Soviet period are quite rich. Monographic Works Key histories of Russian art are available at Stanford. There are many surveys, in some cases in series, dealing with various periods such as medieval Russia, the time of Peter the Great, art of the 1905 revolution, avangard, modernism, the Soviet Revolution and various periods in Soviet history.
Artistic schools are well represented.
Most works by prominent Russian and Soviet art historians and critics can be found in the SUL collections. There is no separate collection of exhibition catalogs. This reveals several pre-revolutionary catalogs, Russian art exhibitions which took place in the West, catalogs of some exhibitions from the Soviet period and a significant number of catalogs of exhibits which took place in the 1990s. For the Soviet period only major exhibition catalogs were collected. Albums Stanford is systematically acquiring albums of scholarly quality.