On December 9, at 5 p.m. at the art gallery Labyrinth take place an exhibition opening and a presentation of an electronic edition "Academician Evfimi Karsky’s Heritage: the 150th Birthday”.
The exhibition organizers: the National Library of Belarus, the Department of Archives and Record Keeping of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus, the Saint-Petersburg Filial of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the National Historical Archive of Belarus, the Belarusian National Archive Museum of Literature and Arts, the State Archive in Grodno Region, the State Archive of Non-Governmental Organizations in Grodno Region and the Belarusian National Archive of Films and Photography.
The exposition includes unique editions from the academician’s private book collection which has been kept in the National Library of Belarus since 1922. This is a precious historical collection of literature on Slavonic studies comprising around 2,5 thousand books. Original documents, photography, bibliographies, notebooks with the author’s correcting and insertions has been presented by the Saint-Petersburg Filial of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The electronic edition includes a biographical essay, documents from Belarusian archives, a catalog of books with autographs, electronic copies of separate editions published in Karsky’s lifetime. The academician’s great-grandson prepared a bibliography of scientific papers, biographical literature and descriptions of the academician’s epistolary heritage for the present electronic edition.
The exhibition runs at the Book Museum of the National Library of Belarus up to January 15, 2011.
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