The rebirth of the documentary history pazhestva
collection of facsimile editions of the Corps of Pages in St. Petersburg will appear in the next year, when the renowned school will celebrate 210 years since its foundation.
important event is likely to be a gradual return Russia in documents exported in due time by pages and settled in the private and public archives in Europe and America. In addition to this important task, there is a need to preserve the published heritage of pre-revolutionary Russia. History has an extensive pazhestva record, only a few books were published at the turn of XIX - XX centuries. Today, they are classified as rare. Save and make them accessible not only to specialists, but also the general reader will allow modern technology - the book again see the light in the form of facsimile editions, which are as close as possible to the original.
Among the printed works that can be attributed to the monuments of art of printing, in his time left Jubilee labor Dmitry Mikhailovich Levshina "His Imperial Majesty's body for a hundred years: 1802-1902." The two volumes contain rare material about the different periods of development of housing on the basis of the collected archives of the General Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the court, private archives and memoirs. Facsimile edition conveys not only unique content, but also rich illustrative material: phototype, heliogravure, chromolithography made on the basis of the works of famous artists P. Pirogov, N. Samokisha , E. Meyendorff. Vorontsov palace interiors, uniforms, portraits of pages, pictures of the life of students give a complete picture of the rich history of the case.
