Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
September 7, 2017 Thursday
Exhibition of Armenian manuscripts opened in St. Petersburg
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. On the sidelines of the Days of
Yerevan in St. Petersburg, deputy Mayor of Yerevan Aram Sukiasyan and
Armenia’s Consul General to St. Petersburg Hrayr Karapetyan attended
the grand opening of the “World in Pages” exhibition.
Armenian manuscripts and books are exhibited in the Russian national
gallery, which have been kept in the library since 1805.
The documents, dating back to the 13th-19th centuries, are from the
collections of Etchmiatsin, the Catholicosate of Cilicia and the
Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
Nearly 2000 Armenian manuscripts are stored in Russian state archives.