Retropressathe old bound volume: a magazine about reading old newspapers and magazines

An independent magazine about old periodicals and how to read them. Not an editorial office, publisher or library, and not connected with the former site on this domain.

Archive

Archive

This page is the magazine's table of contents: every section with a short description, so you can find the topic you need right away. Below, we explain what happened to the domain's old addresses, why some links no longer open and where the one address we kept as an information page now leads. If you arrived through an old link, start with the list of sections.

All that remains of the former site is the domain name; everything you read here has been written from scratch.

— Editor's note

Magazine sections

  • Home: about the magazine, five steps to an old issue and answers to common reader questions.
  • Articles: the magazine's six topics and a catalog of articles being written for English-speaking readers.
  • History: the Russian spelling reform and how the look of the magazine page changed.
  • People and authors: the editor, proofreader, typesetter, makeup editor, illustrator, newsboys and circulation desk, plus tips on bylines and pen names.
  • Collections: three paths for first-timers, for family historians and for keepers of a bound volume at home.
  • Events: periodical exhibitions, library open days, talks on print graphics, conservation workshops and how to check a listing.
  • Analysis: how an old newspaper page is laid out and how to recognize illustration printing methods.
  • Old issues: a guide to where to find old magazine issues and how to read them (in Russian).
  • Archive: this table of contents and a note on the domain's old addresses.

About the domain's old addresses

This domain used to host a digital archive of old issues of a single magazine. Retropressa has no connection with it and does not continue its work.

Some of the old addresses led to material from that former archive. We do not restore them: for those links the server reports that the page has been permanently removed. We chose not to redirect them to our own articles, so as not to give the impression that the former archive carries on under a new name.

We kept one address but gave it new content: it is now a guide to finding and reading old magazine issues. It opens in the Old issues section (in Russian), and you'll find a link to it at the bottom of this page.

Every other section has been written from scratch and is about reading old periodicals in general, with no reprints and no material from the former site.

  • Home

    A magazine about reading old newspapers and magazines: how an issue is built, old spellings, finding issues and caring for a bound volume.

  • Old issues (in Russian)

    A note on an archived address: where to find old magazine issues and how to read them.

  • Articles

    The magazine's six topics, from how an issue is built to caring for a bound volume, plus our article catalog.

  • History

    The Russian spelling reform and how the look of the magazine page gradually changed.

  • Collections

    Three reading paths: for first-timers, for family historians and for keepers of a bound volume at home.

Sources

  • Retropressa editorial materials

Facts about the Russian spelling reform come from reference materials; everything else is described in general terms, without reference to specific publications. Check reading room, exhibition and lecture hours with the organizers.