"The Lay of Igor's Host"

The exposition of "The Lay of Igor's Host"

The exposition of Yaroslavl museum - preserve of History and Architecture "The Lay of Igor's Host" is a unique museum dedicated to only one literary work, discovered within the Spasso-Preobrazhensky monastery. It is an outstanding monument of ancient Russian culture. In the bibliographic part of this literary work one can reveal the role of "The Lay" in the Russian literature and culture of new times, the international importance of this monument and its reflection in Russian and Soviet art of the 19-20-th centuries. The section begins with the collection of books and magazines published in the second part of the 18-th century, which were the basis for the first scientific researchers, translators of the ancient Russian literature. Collecting homeland antiquities was very popular in Russia at that time. One of the most successful and well known collectors the professor of monuments of the Ancient Russia was earl A.I.Musin-Pushkin (1744-1817) over-procurator of Synod, the President of the Academy of Arts, the member of the Russian Academy and Society of History and Antiquities.