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Stamp with the image of Peter I canceled in Serbia
The stamp cancellation with the image of the emperor was held in honor of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter I in Serbia. The initiator of the idea of issuing postage stamps was the Russian House in Belgrade.
The stamp intended for international circulation features a unique portrait of Peter the Great made in the 17th century by an unknown Serbian artist. Until the end of the 19th century, the portrait was kept in the monastery of Velika Remeta, and then, at the behest of the Russian imperial family, it was bought for the Hermitage collection, where it is kept today. The motifs of the stamp's vignette decorations are fragments of the decree of Peter I on sending teachers from Russia to Serbia, thanks to which the First Serbian school appeared in the town of Sremski Karlovci in 1726.
The presentation of the stamps was accompanied by an exhibition of reproductions of the comic book Peter the Great, created in 1941 by Russian emigrants Konstantin Kuznetsov and Pavel Polyakov and published in the Yugoslav periodical Politikin Zabavnik.
Since 2015 a center of remote access to information resources of the Presidential Library has been opened at the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Belgrade.
A large number of materials dedicated to Peter the Great are available in the large-scale electronic collection of the Presidential Library Peter I (1672–1725). The collection is dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of the first All-Russian Emperor Peter I, who was awarded the title of Great for his services to the Fatherland. The collection consists of four thematic sections: "Biography of Peter I", "Activities of Peter I", "Death of Peter I" and "Memory of Peter I". The materials are grouped according to the chronology of publications.
The collection includes more than 600 items: scientific and popular publications of the 18th-20th centuries, dedicated to the identity of the reformer and his reforms; documentary prose of the 18th-19th centuries, including the works of the first biographers of Peter I, collections of anecdotes and legends about him; editions of the 18th century, selected by Peter I for printing in civil type; collections of documents, decrees, letters of Peter I and separate editions of the most important legislative acts of the Peter the Great era; maps, plans, drawings and drawings from the "Collection of Peter I" of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, travel magazines and other archival materials; images of monuments dedicated to the emperor, as well as memorable places and objects associated with him.