The holdings of the library of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve have been replenished with 171 new editions within the last six months. Among them there are books in history, historical sciences, art, museology, literary studies, and local history. Reprints of two editions the originals of which were published in the 19th century are of particular interest.
The first one is “Description of Ancient Russian Utensils, Clothing, Arms, Armour and Horse Harness. Placed in Alphabetical Order” (1896) written by P.I. Savvaitov. It is a dictionary made on the basis of the manuscripts of the 16th-17th centuries. The book is about the ancient Russian articles – household utensils, clothing, arms, and military equipment.
Pavel Ivanovich Savvaitov is a famous scholar of the second half of the 19th century, a philologist, a bible scholar, an archeograph and a historian, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Uvarov Prize of the Imperial Academy of Sciences for his work. It is known that Pavel Savvaitov visited the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery together with another Russian historian M.P. Pogodin in 1841.
The second reprint is titled “Description of Uniforms and Arms of Officers and Civilians in All Units and Divisions of the Military Department”. Its original was issued in 1861. The book contains not only the description, but also depiction of all details of the uniform and arms of Russian officers dating back to 1860-1882 – the reign of Alexander II and the beginning of reign of Alexander III.
