Chronicle anthologies are handwritten collections which consist of fragments of books, articles and chronicles; they are known from the time of the Ancient Rus. The collection presented at the exhibition was published in 1913, when the Russian Empire celebrated the 300th anniversary of the rule of the Romanov dynasty. The publication was titled the Chronicle Anthology of the Romanov Dynasty.
The Chronicle Anthology included then-current and ancient documentary and literary texts dedicated to the life of the Tsar’s and imperial court, court etiquette, holidays and much more.
The editor of the publication was Prince Mikhail Putyatin. He planned to prepare twelve parts of the Chronicle Anthology of the Romanov Dynasty and to publish three issues a year. However, Putyatin managed to publish only two issues.
The first issue contained six articles on how the Romanov dynasty appeared. Among them were the study Kostroma Ipatiev Monastery as the Cradle of the Royal House by Professor Nikolai Pokrovsky and Elpidifor Barsov’s Historical Foundations of Tsar Power in Russia through Folk Songs and Traditions. The release was culminated by the Anthem to the Reigning Romanov Dynasty authored by Prince Dmitry Golitsin-Muravlin.
The preface to the Anthology reads: ‘Russia has experienced many trials in its lifetime, but in the years of tribulations, wars and national disasters, it always knew and remembered that it had God in heaven and the Tsar on earth, and this consciousness inspired and saved the nation, rallying it together. Now, like three hundred years ago, may God install our unanimity into our hearts. And those of us whom the Lord has preserved till these joyful days, motivated by a burst of infinite love and gratitude, may we bow down to the Romanov Throne. We believe that the memory of the great events will unite the Russian people even more and will inspire new forces into us to serve the Tsar and the Motherland. People tend to mark the most important modern events with one or another monument, and there is no doubt that the three hundredth anniversary of the Romanovs’ house should be immortalized by the annals, but to write the history of the Family and the Romanov House would mean to write the history of Russia itself over the past six centuries of its existence. Recognizing the unfeasibility of such a task and reverently embarking on the publication of this Chronicle Anthology, the participants in this work set themselves the goal: in brief terms and, where possible, using the latest research, to reproduce, in their contemporary setting, the images of the most prominent representatives of this very eminent Family, whose destiny is God’s providence so inextricably linked with the history of our country’.
Famous artists of that era, including Viktor Vasnetsov, worked on the design of the Chronicle Anthology. Several issues that used to be stored in the libraries of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Maria Fyodorovna are now in the State Hermitage Museum.
The Chronicle Anthology included then-current and ancient documentary and literary texts dedicated to the life of the Tsar’s and imperial court, court etiquette, holidays and much more.
The editor of the publication was Prince Mikhail Putyatin. He planned to prepare twelve parts of the Chronicle Anthology of the Romanov Dynasty and to publish three issues a year. However, Putyatin managed to publish only two issues.
The first issue contained six articles on how the Romanov dynasty appeared. Among them were the study Kostroma Ipatiev Monastery as the Cradle of the Royal House by Professor Nikolai Pokrovsky and Elpidifor Barsov’s Historical Foundations of Tsar Power in Russia through Folk Songs and Traditions. The release was culminated by the Anthem to the Reigning Romanov Dynasty authored by Prince Dmitry Golitsin-Muravlin.
The preface to the Anthology reads: ‘Russia has experienced many trials in its lifetime, but in the years of tribulations, wars and national disasters, it always knew and remembered that it had God in heaven and the Tsar on earth, and this consciousness inspired and saved the nation, rallying it together. Now, like three hundred years ago, may God install our unanimity into our hearts. And those of us whom the Lord has preserved till these joyful days, motivated by a burst of infinite love and gratitude, may we bow down to the Romanov Throne. We believe that the memory of the great events will unite the Russian people even more and will inspire new forces into us to serve the Tsar and the Motherland. People tend to mark the most important modern events with one or another monument, and there is no doubt that the three hundredth anniversary of the Romanovs’ house should be immortalized by the annals, but to write the history of the Family and the Romanov House would mean to write the history of Russia itself over the past six centuries of its existence. Recognizing the unfeasibility of such a task and reverently embarking on the publication of this Chronicle Anthology, the participants in this work set themselves the goal: in brief terms and, where possible, using the latest research, to reproduce, in their contemporary setting, the images of the most prominent representatives of this very eminent Family, whose destiny is God’s providence so inextricably linked with the history of our country’.
Famous artists of that era, including Viktor Vasnetsov, worked on the design of the Chronicle Anthology. Several issues that used to be stored in the libraries of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Maria Fyodorovna are now in the State Hermitage Museum.
