About

Here you can find and download handmade, handwritten, limited edition or otherwise rare books dating from early 60-s to this day. The collection is focused on Russian Samizdat movement, but seeks to expand itself to other languages and movements too.

Most books have been provided by Aleksander Ocheretyansky, poet, researcher and founder of the Chernovik magazine, the leading Russian magazine of mixed media poetry.

Submissions

The collection accepts submissions from other authors and collectors. Please submit via email.

The website is highly curated and only rare, handmade or limited edition books will be considered.

Please submit files in PDF format with preferrable file size of 10Mb or less.

The curator

Gleb Simonov is a poet and a photographer, born in Moscow and currently living in New York City.