EXCURSION «LIFE FOR A BOOK»
Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin — entrepreneur, rich and influential newspaper and book magnate, Russian Ford, the first publisher of the Russian Empire, despite his undoubted services to the Fatherland, today is known only to a limited circle of interested people and specialists — polygraphists, students of polygraphic universities, historians. Meanwhile, it was not by chance that I. D. Sytin aroused the surprise and admiration of his contemporaries. Such concepts as loyalty to public duty and public benefit are associated with his name.
The tour introduces the life of the largest book publisher in pre—revolutionary Russia, Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin, who managed to rise from a semi-literate peasant boy to the level of advanced sophisticated people of the late XX — early XIX centuries.
In the apartment where Ivan Dmitrievich lived in 1928−1934, a museum exposition is now deployed. There are documents from the family archive and personal belongings of I. D. Sytin, furniture, household items, paintings and sculptures, art addresses, as well as numerous printed publications.
Duration: 45 min.
The optimal number of people in the group is up to 15 people, the maximum is 20 people.
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