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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 ...
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. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was not the first special library in the Soviet Union preceded by the Fundamental Library of the Social Libraries in 1918 and the State Central Scientific Medical ...
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]
By 1970 its collection numbered around 3 million items which included over 30,000 rare historical books. It contained a general reading room and three respective research rooms for the topics of the history of the Soviet Government and the Communist Party, general history, and eastern history.
The Moscow Times already moved its editorial operations out of Russia in 2022 after the passage of a law ... The publication began in 1992 as a daily print paper distributed for free in ...
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 ...
Its leader, A. Sukhanov, brought five hundred Greek manuscripts from Mount Athos to Moscow. These books laid the foundation for the library of the Moscow Print Yard. In 1681, they opened a Greek school on the premises of the printing house. By the end of the 17th century, the staff of the Print Yard already numbered 165 people.
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 ...