After the Załuski Library had been removed by the Russians to St. Petersburg, the Society's library was the greatest public library in former Poland. Its collection was partially confiscated by the Russians in 1832, and later parts of it were destroyed by the Nazis during the Second World War. It had its own journal, the "Annals of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning" ("Roczniki Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk", vols. 1-21, published 1802–30), and the "Warsaw Chronicle" ("Pamiętnik Warszawski"), a serious modeled on publications such as the "Edinburgh Review".