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Last update of repository: 30 May 2019

Biblioteka Sankt-Peterburgskoi Pravoslavnoi Dukhovnoi Akademii i Seminarii (Biblioteka SPbPDAiS)


Previous names
VIII.1991–IV.1992   Biblioteka Sankt-Peterburgskoi Dukhovnoi Akademii i Seminarii (Biblioteka SPbDAiS)
[Library of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and Seminary]
1946–1991   Biblioteka Leningradskoi Dukhovnoi Akademii (Biblioteka LDA)
[Library of the Leningrad Theological Academy]
1809–1918   Biblioteka Sankt-Peterburgskoi Dukhovnoi Akademii (Biblioteka SPbDA)
[Library of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy]
1797–1809   Biblioteka Aleksandro-Nevskoi Akademii
[Library of the Alexander Nevskii Academy]
1788–1797   Biblioteka Slaviano-Greko-Latinskoi seminarii
[Library of the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Seminary]
History
The precursors of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and Seminary were the Seminary on the Karpovka River (established in 1716) and the School in the Alexander Nevskii Lavra (Monastery). The latter was renamed the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Seminary in 1726 and in 1788 became the principal religious educational institution in Russia. In 1797 the Seminary was renamed the Alexander Nevskii Academy, which in 1809, after the 1808 reform of religious educational institutions in Russia, was divided into the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, the Seminary, and the School (uchilishche).
        When the Academy and Seminary were closed in 1918, the Academy manuscript collection was nationalized by the state, and it is now housed in the Manuscript Division of the Russian National Library (G–15). The Academy and Seminary were reopened in 1946, as was the library. Among other accessions are the book collections of the Byzantinist V.N. Beneshevich, the historians and ethnographers A.I. and M.I. Uspenskii, and Vasilii (V. Krivoshin), Archbishop of Brussels, the later received from emigration. The present collection of manuscripts and manuscript books in the library was formed during the postwar years through private contributions.


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