International Claims Resources - Countries

Russia

Searchable Databases of Looted/Stolen and/or Suspicious Art

• Pushkin Museum in Moscow
• The Russian State Library (Rossiiskaya Gosudarstvennaya Biblioteka)
• The National Library of Russia (Rossiiskaia Natsional’naya Biblioteka)
• State Archive of Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federazii-GARF)

Archives

• Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
• Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Rossisskaia Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Lituratura i Iskusstva-RGALI)
• Russian State Military Archive (Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Voennyi Arkhiv-RGVA)  (link disabled, unsecure site)

General Databases/Historical Documentation/Archives

• “State Library: Lost Book Treasures-Summary Catalogue”
• M.I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature (Vserossiiskaya Gosudarstevennaya Biblioteka Inostrannoi Lituratura-VGBIL)
• Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Moscow University Library (Otdel Redkikh Knig I Rukopiei)
• Restitution Internet Project (Internet Proekt Restitusiya)
• The State Hermitage Museum Online Collections

Laws 1945-Present

• Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of World War II and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation 1997 March 5
• Federal Law N 64-FZ of April 15, 1998