![Among the 2,000 rare etchings, engravings, and lithographs issued as special edition supplements to Polone sobranie zakonove Rossiiskoi [Complete Collection of Laws of Imperial Russia] is one of the dress uniforms for officials of the Telegraph Department.](https://today.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RusssianArt02_2341c_45-239x300.jpg)
Credit: HLS Special Collections Among the 2,000 rare etchings, engravings, and lithographs issued as special edition supplements to Polone sobranie zakonove Rossiiskoi [Complete Collection of Laws of Imperial Russia] is one of the dress uniforms for officials of the Telegraph Department.

Credit: HLS Special Collections Sword and lance positioning as depicted in the Polnow sobranie zakonov
Soon researchers will have access to an English language inventory of the supplements translated this summer by Irina Tarsis, for the library’s Special Collections Department. According to David Ferris, HLS curator of rare books and manuscripts, “An integral part of the laws that they illustrate, this collection is a superb example of 19th- and 20th-century Russian graphic art.”