Manuscripts
Manuscripts

Manuscripts holdings is one of the world's richest collections of written landmarks of national and world culture from ancient Egyptian papyri to autographs of our contemporaries. The manuscripts held by the National Library of Russia comprise of over 1400 private archives and collections that today number more than 450 000 valuable items for all periods and countries.
Rare Books
Rare Books

The library's stock of rare books contains more than 70 000 volumes. An appreciable portion of those are incunabula (books printed before 1501): about 7 000 works. The library has no rival for its stock of early Russian printed books and Slavonic incunabula, it also holds a large amount of West European publications from the 16th and 17th century. The most remarkable among collections are Aldine editions of the 15th - 16th centuries and Elseviers produced by the celebrated 17th/century Dutch family firm. The Rare Books Department can boast Voltaire's Library, the unique monument of 18th century culture, that is one of some well surviving private libraries of that time.
Maps
Maps

The National Library's collection of printed maps and atlases is the second largest in the country, comprising more than 180,000 items printed in Russia and abroad from the sixteenth century to the present. It incudes maps, atlases, reproductions of manuscripts, globes, electronic cartographic publications.
Graphic Materials
Graphic Materials

The prints collections today number more than 1.26 million items. These include: albums, books, Ex Libris, photographs, posters, postcards, Russian and West European Prints
Photographs
Photographs

A unique photographic collection of the Prints Department is a true chronicle of the life of Russia since the second half of the 19th . It includes portraits from the 1850s, photographic views of cities and other places since the 1850s, photos on various subjects from the 1860s, photographic reproductions of works of art.
- Leningrad during World War II
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Books
Books

The exhibitions presents material from several collections:
Russian Books
Foreign Books
Russian Periodicals
Literature of Asian and African Countries
Literature of the Peoples the Russian Federation
"Plekhanov House".
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Day of Slavic Culture and Writing

In celebration of the 1150th anniversary of the Slavic alphabet

Croatia. Glagolitic Today

Glagolitic Alphabet is the First Slavic Script
Berčić Collection
Croatia. Glagolitic Today

In our day, the Glagolitic writing is a symbol of national identity in Croatia.

Here are a few examples to illustrate this important point. The inscription on a wall in the Zagreb cathedral to celebrate the 1300th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity of the Croatian people is made in Glagolitic. In 1967, a specially designed medal by the Croatian medallist (Želimir Janeš) with inscriptions in the Glagolitic script was issued in Zagreb to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the death of St Cyril the Philosopher.

Croatian artists and designers currently apply the Glagolitic letters. In some publications, for instance in the Journal of the Zagreb Society of Friends of the Glagolitic Writing - Bašćina(Heritage), articles printed in Latin are repeated in the Glagolitic script.

The Glagolitic letters can be found on clothing, coins, wine labels, boxes of chocolates and other household items.

Svetlana Vyalova,
Mauscripts Department

"For her contribution to the study of Croatian language and culture as a whole", Svetlana Vyalova, a leading researcher of the Mauscripts Department of the NLR, was honoured with the Order of the Croatian Danica (the Morning Star) with the face of Marc Marulić - Red Danice Hrvatske.

Croatian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Igor Pokaz and Svetlana Vyalova Order of Croatian Danica (the Morning Star) with the face of Marko Marulić

Croatian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Igor Pokaz and Svetlana Vyalova