New exhibition project marking the 350th anniversary of Peter I held at the Gorky Ryazan Regional Universal Scientific Library

On June 21, 2022 an exhibition project marking the 350th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian emperor, Peter the Great, was opened in the small conference hall of the Gorky Ryazan Regional Universal Scientific Library.  

The implementation of the project has become possible thanks to the cooperation of the Gorky Ryazan Regional Library, the Archbishop Theodoret of Ryazan Historical Library and the Presidential Library.

The exposition introduces books from the collections of the Gorky Ryazan Regional Universal Scientific Library and the Archbishop Theodoret of Ryazan Historical Library, spotlighting the political, economic, cultural, educational events of the Petrine era. Of particular interest are the display cases with books from the rare collections of libraries, including the Missal of 1704, as well as coins of the Petrine era.

The exhibition features tablets with images of scientific and popular publications of the 18th-20th centuries dedicated to the personality of Peter I and his reforms; writings of the first biographers of Peter I; collections of documents, decrees, letters of Peter I from the electronic collections of the Presidential Library with QR codes that make it possible to learn about the documents on the Presidential Library’s portal in the collection Peter I (1672–1725).

The exposition will be available at the Gorky Library until July 20, 2022.

In 2022, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Presidential Library will provide a project called The Library of Peter I. The collection of manuscripts, books and graphics, collected during the life of the emperor, has been based on the country's first public library, which he created. For many decades, BAN employees have been painstakingly studying and restoring this collection, unique in its diversity and content. The project features handwritten books, both those that belonged to the closest relatives of Peter I, and those donated to him personally; copies of printed books purchased in Europe by his order and numerous handwritten maps.