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UKRAINE. RARE BOOK LIBRARY IN KARAZIN UNIVERSITY DAMAGED BY MISSILES |
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Over several days in March, rocketeers fired missiles at Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine damaging a number of Karazin university buildings, destroyed its institute of public administration and exploded in the rare book library, which housed 60,000 of the university's 3,350,000 books and manuscripts. Among these are incunabula (books printed before 1500, that is, before the invention of movable type), palaetypes (1501 to 1550), 16th and 17th century Ukrainian books, thousands of manuscripts, personal papers of scientists, and Greek and Polish manuscripts. The library's buildings, some of which follow French Renaissance or Classical models, testify to the fact that Ukrainian architects looked west and not east for inspiration. (F: NMG, UWN agosto 2022)
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