Memorable dates of Russia: The exhibition to the 300th anniversary of the “Land Military Charter” approved by Peter I in Saint-Petersburg

March 30, 2016 in the Korf hall of the National Library of Russia (Saint-Petersburg) is opened the exhibition "…To read and to perform well": to the 300th anniversary of the "Land Military Charter".

The exhibition is timed to the 300th anniversary of the approval of Peter the Great of the military instrument, securing the establishment of Russian regular army and the order of its life and activity.

The exhibition includes rare books, magazines, prints, newspapers from the NLR funds, telling the story of Russian military regulations from the XVI to the XXI centuries.

For the first time among the exhibits - Charter, approved by Peter the Great - "The Book of Military Regulations: On the position of generals, field marshals and generals all, and other officials…" (St. Petersburg, March 30, 1716).

The exhibition also tells about the companions of Peter, who participated in the drafting and editing of the Charter - Adam Weide, James Bruce, Andrew Vinius.

Visitors will learn about the first military regulations in Russia, documents of precursor of Peter's Charter - "Boyar sentence of stanitsa and guard service" and the "Charter of Basil Shuisky". One of the features of the exhibition was a treatise, which cited all military theorists of the XVII century - the "Military Book" by Baron Leonard Fronsperger (1573). 

The exhibition also tells the story of the later imperial period charters: among the exhibits - a reformed by Paul of "His Imperial Majesty's Military Code of Infantry Field Service" (Moscow, 1797) and documents that regulated the activities of the army after 1917.

The exposition is complemented with illustrations of a multivolume work of Alexander Viskovatov "Historical description of clothing and weapons of Russian troops".

The exhibition will run until April 17.