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The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars, also known as the "Golden Library", is a library speculated to have been assembled by Grand Duke Ivan III (the Great) of Russia (r. 1460–1505) in the 16th century. It is also known as the Library of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), who is
Reflecting Moscow's new imperial claims, Ivan's coronation as Tsar was a ritual modeled after those of the Byzantine emperors. With the continuing assistance of a group of boyars, Ivan began his reign with a series of useful reforms. In the 1550s, he declared a new law code, revamped the military, and reorganized local government.
The library moved four times and did not have its current home until 1967. The library was still under the control of its founder and it grew to contain four million books. Most of the books are from Western countries and the library contains languages facilities so that readers can learn the language of the books. [2]
Tsar Alexis on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition: It is the crowning merit of the Tsar Alexei that he discovered so many great men (like Fyodor Rtishchev, Ordin, Matveyev, the best of Peter's precursors) and suitably employed them. He was not a man of superior ...
It is also informally known as the Tsar Book (Царь-книга), in an analogy with Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The set of manuscripts was commissioned by tsar Ivan the Terrible [ 3 ] and was made by group of anonymous manuscript illuminators in tsar palace in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda and Moscow.
This testimony is the earliest known reference of a collection of ancient manuscripts belonging to the Russian tsars which has never been found, also referred to as The Lost Library of the Moscow Tsars. [5] This lost library later became a favorite research topic of early 20th century Russian archaeologist Ignatius Stelletskii. [46]
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The library was founded on 1 July 1862, as Moscow's first free public library and as a part of the Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum, or in short the Rumyantsev library. [ 14 ] The Rumyantsev Museum part of the complex housed the historical collection of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev , which had been given to the Russian people ...