The album of portraits of the Radziwiłł family published by the Petrus Brovka Belarusian Encyclopedia will be reissued

July 11, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The album "Radziwills. Album of Portraits of the 18th-19th Centuries" published by the Petrus Brovka Belarusian Encyclopedia will be reissued. This was announced by the director of the publishing house, Tatyana Belova, in response to a question from a BELTA correspondent. "The decision to reissue the Radziwill album is currently being made at the level of the Ministry of Information. It is due to the fact that this rare edition has itself become a rarity," said Tatyana Belova. "Radziwills. Album of Portraits of the 18th-19th Centuries," which opened the "Encyclopedia of Rarities" series (founded in 2010), reproduces a unique monument of Belarusian culture - the Radziwill album of the 18th century. The book became a laureate of the President of the Republic of Belarus Prize "For Spiritual Revival" in 2010 and the winner of the Grand Prix of the VIII International Contest "The Art of the Book" of the CIS member states. Its print run was 2,000 copies. It is planned that the reissued album will have the same print run. The album of Radziwill portraits was presented today at the Lenin Vitebsk Regional Library to the general public as part of the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" International Arts Festival. Employees of the "Petrus Brovka Belarusian Encyclopedia" publishing house also presented other publications of this series: the photo album of facsimile watercolor sketches "Dmitry Strukov. Album of Drawings. 1864-1867" (2011), which won the Grand Prix of the IX International Contest "The Art of the Book" of the CIS member states; the third album "Living Faith. Vetka," released in February 2012, which received a first-degree diploma in the "Commonwealth" nomination at the IX International Contest "The Art of the Book" of the CIS member states, as well as a new project dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of Belarusian statehood, "Polotsk. 1150." "The print run of the latter edition was 2,500 copies. In fact, 1,500 have already gone to the Vitebsk region, and the remaining thousand will go to libraries and the country's retail network," noted Tatyana Belova. "With every book, with every rarity, we are creating an encyclopedia of our history, because Belarus has something to tell about, it has a great history of a great people," emphasized the director of the publishing house at the presentation. -0-