Library
The MGIMO-University library contains over 700 000 volumes in books and magazines in Russian and more than 30 foreign languages. The library also includes the Museum of Rare Books which boasts a collection of 21 000 unique volumes.
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Famous quotes containing the word library:
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)