The corpus includes fiction and nonfiction texts from the collected works of Russian classical writers.

At the moment, the corpus contains Russian-language works of

Alexander Radishchev
Ivan Krylov
Vasily Zhukovsky
Alexander Griboyedov
Alexander Pushkin
Evgeny Baratynsky
Mikhail Lermontov
Nikolay Gogol
Fyodor Tyutchev
Ivan Turgenev
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Lev Tolstoy
Nikolay Leskov
Anton Chekhov

Preference was given to the digitized complete collections of works available in the digital libraries rvb.ru and feb-web.ru. The Soviet-times collected works by Zhukovsky, Gogol or Leskov omit some texts, for reasons including ideology. The texts of Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov came from related digital projects. Editorial translations have not been included in the corpus. Foreign-language texts containing original Russian fragments or drafts are included.

The default sorting is by ascending date, sorting by author (and by genre and title within the texts of the same author) is also available. In the corpus you can build a diachronic frequency graph and also compare several queries on the graph.

The corpus is now in beta version, and it is planned to be updated with new authors and works. The approximate size of the corpus is 18 mln tokens.

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