library
Kyiv: St Sophia library under Yaroslav
1037–1100
attested. Attested by the Primary Chronicle. Which surviving books came from this library is unknown.
The Primary Chronicle records under 1037 that Yaroslav gathered many scribes to translate from Greek into Slavonic and placed the books in the St Sophia church he had built: the first recorded library of Kyivan Rus.
Place: Saint Sophia Cathedral · On the map
People
- Yaroslav the Wise
- Metropolitan Hilarion (Sermon on Law and Grace)
Manuscripts made here
Ostromir Gospels (1056-1057, by deacon Grigory for Ostromir of Novgorod)
Kept now: St Petersburg, National Library of Russia
Izbornik of 1073
Kept now: Moscow, State Historical Museum