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Russian Embassy presented Leiden University with Tsar-Book

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Russian Embassy presented Leiden University with Tsar-Book


26.06.2017

netherlands.mid.ruThe oldest educational institution of the Netherlands, Leiden University was presented with a facsimile edition of The Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible, as Inessa Filatova advised to the Russkiy Mir Foundation.

A multi-volume edition is an illustrated chronicle of historical characters covering the period since the creation of the world until 1567. It was compiled in one copy following the personal order of Ivan the Terrible. The Tsar-Book was being created for, supposedly, 8-9 years by the best writers and iconographers of the second half of XVI century.

About 17 thousand hand-painted miniatures were included into ten-volume compilation, whose original is stored in three libraries of Russia.

Leiden University Rector Carel Stolker accepted the gift and thanked representatives of Russian Embassy in the Netherlands. He has remarked that having the Tsar-Book at the university library provides new opportunities for the students and Ph.D. students studying one of the most challenging periods of the Russian history.

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