Пражские следы «сербской» библиотеки Максима и Петра Суворовых (1725 г.)
Prague Traces of the “Serbian” Library of Maxim and Peter Suvorov (1725)

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to research the composition and peculiarities owned by Russian teachers Maxim and Peter Suvorov in Serbia in the second half of the 1720s and early 1730s. This small but very valuable collection of books, brought to Serbia by the elder brother Maxim, was transferred by his younger brother Peter to the Karlovac Metropolitanate on 14 October 1731. Some of the books were published in Prague in 1725 and then purchased there by Maxim in the same year. The article provides information about handwritten and printed books from the Suvorovs’ personal library, discovered and identified in the Library of the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. This study also explains the motives and unrealised plans of the Russian teacher who purchased Latin and German editions in Prague before his mission to Serbia. In addition, some facts about the biography of the Suvorov brothers’ father, Terenty, and his younger son, Peter, who left a significant mark on Russian poetry in the first half of the 18th century, are clarified.

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