Museum-library of Simeon Polotsk description and photos - Belarus: Polotsk (Topic)

Museum-Library of Simeon Polotskiy description and photos - Belarus: Polotsk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Museum-Library of Simeon of Polotsk is located in the building of the former Brotherhood School of the Jesuit Collegium in Polotsk. On May 25, 1994, the museum was reopened after reconstruction. This is a working library and museum of the history of book printing.

The library is designed in the style of university libraries of the 17th-18th centuries. Dark wood furniture, ancient globes, busts of scientists and philosophers, two-level book shelves - everything corresponds to the design of the library of that enlightened time. Visitors have a unique chance to feel like a student of the 17th century, literally touching ancient books and folios. There is a reading room for 10 workplaces, equipped with the latest word of modern science, but all modern innovations are carefully disguised.

The large exposition is devoted to the publishing and educational activities of Simeon Polotsky. Here you can see his writing table, on which lie, as if waiting for the owner, a writing instrument and manuscripts. It also contains the originals of his books "The Rod of Government", "Testoment", "Soul Supper".

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