Exhibitions: The exhibition “St. Vladimir – Baptist of Rus’” opened at the Irkutsk Regional Museum

The exposition department “Window to Asia” of the Irkutsk Regional Museum on July 15 will open the mini-exhibition from the book fund IOKOM dedicated to the millennium of the death of Prince Vladimir.

The main spiritual feat of Prince Vladimir was the Baptism of Rus’ in 988. That he chose for his people, the Orthodox faith. Historians called it the Great Church - to Saints, and people called him simply - Vladimir the Red Sun. 

One of the first historians to illuminate this topic in their works were: Vasily Tatishchev, Gerhard Friedrich Miller, Nikolai Karamzin Mikhail Pogodin, Mikhail Shcherbatov, Mykola Kostomarov and others. The exhibition will feature the works of eminent historians. Visitors will be able to see the lifetime editions of N. M. Karamzin "History of the Russian State" (1817), G. F. Miller "A brief news of the beginning of Novagorod and the origin of the Russian people" (1761), M. P. Pogodin "On the Origin of Rus’” (1825) and others.  

In addition, the exhibition includes manuscripts, early printed books of the XVII-XIX centuries. Among the most interesting and rare exhibits is a hand-written book "Holiday Menaion" (a hook letter of the XVIII century), "Menaion" (end of the XVII century), "Psalms" (late XVII early XVIII century) and others, which are a model of artistic design, illustration, and paleographic performance.

Visitors will see the first Russian chronicle, published in Saint-Petersburg at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1767 and 1793.