Welcome to the inaugural issue of ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, published by the Eighteenth Century Russian Studies Association and Duke University Library.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, Древняя Россiйская Вивлiоѳика, the historical and literary monthly that rolled off the presses of N. I. Novikov's Типографическая компания over 240 years ago. And it is with the utmost humility that the editors of Вивлiоѳика 2.0 invoke the name of, and express their intellectual debt to our secular patron saint.
