History of a book: The project “All started with “Apostle”, dedicated to the 450th anniversary of the release of the first dated printed book of Rus’, in Cheboksary

March 14 (March 1 old style) 2014 marks the Day of Orthodox book – on this day 450 years ago was released the first dated book of Rus’ – the printed book of Ivan Feodorov “Apostle” (1564).

From March 1-14, 2014 the Electronic Reading Room of the National Library of the Chuvash Republic (Cheboksary) presents an unusual project "It all started with the "Apostle", which includes the traditional book exhibition and a virtual view of the book "Apostle".

For the book exhibition of the same name were selected books, rarely exhibited - Orthodox publications in the Chuvash language, about Chuvash temples and monasteries. Here are shown the texts of prayers. Besides the books is presented an audio book "Lives of the Saints" - a modern collection of historical texts on the Orthodox saints from antiquity until the XX century, and the disc of Russian sacred music of the XVIII-XX centuries. History lovers are interested in a monograph of L. A. Taymasov "Christianization of the Chuvash people in the first half of the 19th century". Professionals will be interested in bibliographies "Russian writers-theologians" and "Russian church singing" of Vl. Protopopov.

Anyone who is interested to see the first dated book of Rus’ "Apostle" by Ivan Fedorov (1564) can get a unique opportunity to look through this book as well as in electronic format on the computer.