Students of the International Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism of Povolzhsky University visited the exhibition "History of Writing of European and Eastern Civilisation" in the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The exhibition hall of the library presents unique cultural artefacts - monuments of business and book writing of Russia and Western Europe of XV - early XIX centuries. Documents and various types of manuscripts in Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets are exhibited. We are talking about state papers, handwritten books, letters, private documents, gift editions, stone sculptures....
The variety of exhibited items is astonishing. For example, one can see Peter the Great's letter of complaint to Fyodor Apraksin, a letter from Pope Pius V to Russian Tsar Ivan IV with a proposal to join the military alliance against the Ottomans, fragments of memorial plates from the Kazan Khanate.
The exhibition was created by the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Archaeology of the Republic of Tatarstan and the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan. It can be visited until mid-December.
The guys carefully examined the rarities and listened to the story of the library's employee about the history of the library, which dates back to 1865, about the modern opportunities it offers to students and all readers.
The students were particularly interested in the history of the building, which now houses the main book depository of the republic - the former national-cultural centre "Kazan".
Since many of the first-year students came to study in Kazan from other settlements of Tatarstan and Russia, the students discovered this beautiful historical building and the 40-metre stele with a sculpture of the bird of freedom - Horriyat.
The students left the library with a great impression.
