In 1987, a few years before her death, the great Russian Albanologist Agnija Vasil'evna Desnickaja published a study in Albanian literature and language, of which about half is devoted to the development of Albanian letters. Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer, History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004, →ISBN.