Collection of the memorial Richard Stites’ library

Richard Stites’ memorial library contains more than 1500 books in the following fields such as history, social Sciences and Humanities, works of Russian philosophers, publicists and historians in English. A third of the collection is devoted to history and culture of the United States of America and European countries.

Richard Stites is an American historian and specialist in Russian history, who generously donated to the historical department of the Higher school of Economics in St. Petersburg. The Grand opening was held on 09 June 2015. The ceremony was attended by acting the U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg Ms. Courtney Nemroff.
The library can be used not only by the students, graduates and staff of the St. Petersburg HSE, but also by researches affiliated with the HSE St. Petersburg.
We invite everyone to visit the library, located at the address Soyuza Pechatnikov str., 16.