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• The frontispiece of The Apostolos, Ivan Fiodorov's first printed book. 1564.
• The page of Leontry Magnitsky's Arithmetic
• A cabinet in the library.
• The library's building at 36 Fontanka Embankment.
• The first library's building on the junction of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street (corner building on the left).
• The new library building on Moskovsky Prospekt.
• Catherine II. Engraving by Gavrila Skorodumov.
• Miniature from the Grand Croniques de France. 15^th century.
• The Celestial Globe... Moscow, 1707.
• The Ostromir Gospel of 1056-57.
• The Gospel of Trebizond. 10^th century.
• A letter from King Henry II of France.
• A charter issued by Grand Prince Ivan Vasilyevich of Moscow (Ivan the Terrible). 1552.
• Izbornik of 1076 - one of the earliest russian manuscript anthologies of reading matter.
• The mediaeval romance Lancelot du Lac. About 1500.
• One of the rooms of the Manuscript Department.
• Unknown Artist. Neva Embankment. Tinted lithograph.
• Alaxei Zubov. Frontispiece to The Book of Mars featuring a portrait of Peter the Great. Etching. 1712.
• Frontispiece of an Arabic manuscript of Poem of Cape.
• A facsimile edition of the French 15^th-century Prayer-Book of Louis d'Orleans.
• A page from Karion Istomin's Russian Primer.
• Scene of the Kieva Psalter of 1397.
• The socio-economic research reading room.
• The reading hall, designed by Yevgraf Vorotilov.
• Head Office. 18, Sadovaya Street, Saint-Petersburg, 191069, Russia.
• Khudozhestvennye sokrovishcha Rossii (Artistic treasures of Russia), a monthly anthology, 1901-07.
• The first Russian printed newspaper, Vedemosti. St.-Petersburg, 1724.
• Mir Iskusstva (The World of Art) magazine.

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