Libraries of Russia: The M. Y. Lermontov Penza Regional Library hosts the exhibition of rare books with autographs

Unique exhibition "Books have their own destiny" opened on July 6 in the M. Y. Lermontov Penza Regional Library. The exhibition is dedicated to books with autographs that make up the rare fund.

As explained in the library, an inscription on the book by the author, gives it a unique character - a book becomes the only one of its kind. Penza includes more than 700 books, donated over the years, with the autographs of prominent figures of science and culture, Penza famous poets and writers, local writers.

As an example are "New Poems", presented to the library in 1897 by Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov, great-uncle of Emperor Nicholas II, to publish his poems under the pseudonym "K. R.", as well as the collection of folk songs "Gusli zvonchaty", a novel in verse "Vladimir Volgin" of the first librarian Nikolai Panov and "Poems" of one of the first translators of the "Marseillaise" Vladimir Ladyzhensky.

The exhibition will run until the end of September.