The presentation of the book “D. Strukov. Album of drawings. 1864–1867” from the series “Enzhiklopedia raritetov” (The Encyclopedia of Virtues) was carried out in the gallery “Labyrinth” on September 27.
A facsimile edition of watercolour drawings was made in 1864–1867 by famous artist and architect Dmitry Strukov. The pictures of over 200 ancient wooden and stone churches, the most part of which are not saved by now, are shown in this edition. The album also includes pictures of lost church antique objects, icons and church plates, headstones, drawings of ancient barrows and sites of ancient settlements, panoramas of ancient Belarusian towns.
Besides Strukov’s pictures, the album contains commentaries of leading Belarusian, Russian, Lithuanian fine art experts, the afterword of Belarusian fine art expert Olga Bazhenova, fragments from Dmitry Strukov’s diary which have never been published before.
All materials in the book are presented in Russian and English languages. It allows people who speak other languages to read this edition. And it can provoke interest of foreigners to the achievements of the Belarusian culture.
In the presentation of the album took part: editor-in-chief of "Belarusian Encyclopedia named after P. Brovki" Larisa Yazykovich; vice-chairman of the Republican Public Council on Culture and Arts Matters Anatoly Butevich; first deputy director for user service and ideology of the National Library of Belarus Elena Dolgopolova; associate professor of arts chair of the State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of the Belarusian State University, Ph.D. in Art history Olga Bazhenova; doctor of architecture, professor, head of architecture of inhabited and public buildings chair in the Belarusian National Technical University Sergei Sergachev; Ph.D. in Art history Alexandr Yaroshevich.
Within the framework of the event editor-in-chief of "Belarusian Encyclopedia named after P. Brovki" Larisa Yazykovich gifted the book “D. Strukov. Album of drawings. 1864–1867” to the National Library of Belarus.
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