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Ivan III and Sophia married in 1472 and her dowry included a rare collection of books from the Library of Constantinople and Library of Alexandria. [citation needed] For several months in 1891 Professor Thraemer lived in Moscow searching through all of the city's libraries and archives in the hopes of locating the lost library. Thraemer ...
Ignatius Yakovlevich Stelletskii (Russian: Игнатий Яковлевич Стеллецкий; February 3, 1878 - November 11, 1949) was a Russian and Soviet archaeologist, historian, and researcher of the tunnels of Moscow. He was known to make searches for the library of Ivan the Terrible all throughout his life. [1]
The Moscow Print Yard (Russian: Московский Печатный двор) was the first publishing house in Russia. [1] It was established in Kitai-gorod at the behest of Ivan the Terrible in 1553. The historic headquarters of the Print Yard now house the Russian State University for the Humanities.
The library was founded by Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino in 1921 in an old building in central Moscow. [2] It opened as a small Neophilological Library that started with a collection of only 100 books in German, French and English located on the 5th floor of the building.
The Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Лицевой летописный свод, romanized: Litsevoy letopisny svod; 1560-1570s) is the largest compilation of historical information ever assembled in medieval Russia. It is also informally known as the Tsar Book (Царь-книга), in an analogy with Tsar Bell and Tsar ...
The library was founded on 1 July 1862, as Moscow's first free public library and as a part of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum, or in short the Rumyantsev library. [ 14 ] The Rumyantsev Museum part of the complex housed the historical collection of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev , which had been given to the Russian people ...
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Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 [a] is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich , shortly after Ivan the Terrible had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger.