For the first time, ordinary citizens will be able to get acquainted with one of the oldest documents live at the exhibition “The Novgorod the First Letopis – a unique monument of Russian literature” in the Novgorod Museum. The Archaeograpic commission’s copy of the Novgorod the First Letopis from the collection of the Archive of SPbIH of the RAS has never left its place of storage before. The exhibition became possible thanks to the project “The History of European Civilization Writing” and the cooperation of Novgorod State Joint Museum Reserve and SPbIH of the RAS.
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