The museum-reserve in the Vladimir region will for the first time recreate the process of printing books at Andronik Nevezha’s printing house; Visitors to the exhibition will be able to enjoy an interactive exhibition. The main exhibition will be the Slobodskaya Psalter of 1577.
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Andronik Timofeevich Nevezha headed the printing house for about 30 years.
Near Vladimir, the printing press of Andronik Nevezha, which operated during the time of Ivan the Terrible, will be recreated for the first time. Thus, located on the territory of the Alexander Kremlin (it is one of the oldest residences of Moscow sovereigns), the museum-reserve will open a new exhibition “In the printing house.”
As Marina Rybakova, acting director of the Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda museum-reserve, noted in an interview with TASS, “this will be an epoch-making event.”
The expert explained that Alexandrovskaya Sloboda, in the minds of many people, is the oprichnina capital of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible.
“We want to show it as the cradle of printing in Russia,” added Marina Rybakova.
Russia’s first printing house, headed by Ivan Fedorov (deacon of the Church of Nikolai Gostunsky in the Moscow Kremlin), was built in Moscow by order of Grozny in the mid-16th century.
The acting director of the museum-reserve recalled that after the fire in the Moscow Printing House building, the printing house was temporarily transported to Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Here Fedorov’s successor, Andronik Timofeevich Nevezha, appeared, who eventually headed the printing house for about 30 years.
Within the framework of the new project, the goal of the museum staff is to tell in detail about the personality of Andronik Nevezha.
By the way, he completely created the books from beginning to end: he cut headers, fonts, revised the books, noted Marina Rybakova.
According to her, four publications were printed in Sloboda: “Slobodskaya Psalter”, “Book of Hours”, “Apostle” and “Gospel”. In the Middle Ages they were used to both praying and learning to read and write.
The museum acquired the Slobodskaya Psalter, created during the time of Ivan the Terrible, in 2017. With the appearance of the original exhibition, experts began to think about the exhibition. Now the “Slobodskaya Psalter” is the main exposition around which the entire scenario of the event revolves.
This will not be a classic exhibition with showcases, the event organizers clarified. We are talking about an interactive exhibition that will help visitors “integrate into the era.” Visitors, entering the space of the new exhibition, will find themselves in the atmosphere of Ivan the Terrible’s printing house.
As part of the exhibition, which opens on May 25, you will also be able to see authentic medieval rarities and historical reconstructions that will help present the main technological processes for the creation of the first printed books.
