Abdullaeva F. I. Some notes on the history of the Persian Manuscript Collection in the St. Petersburg State University // Петербургское востоковедение. Выпуск 8. СПб.: Центр «Петербургское Востоковедение», 1996. С. 189—196.
The appearance of the Persian manuscript collection in the library
of the St. Petersburg University is inseparably linked with the
beginning of the teaching of Oriental languages in St. Petersburg. It
started in the Pedagogical Institute in 1816, where Persian and Arabic
were taught. Three years later the Institute received the status of a
University...