- Aleksey Khludov
Aleksey Ivanovich Khludov (
23 August ,1818 –22 March ,1882 ) was aRussia nOld Believer merchant who amassed the richest private collection of early mediaevalmanuscript s inImperial Russia .The son of a peasant, Khludov rose to become a man of considerable fortune and chairman of the Moscow stock exchange committee from 1859 to 1865. He specialized in early Russian, South Slavic, and Greek religious manuscripts, most of which he acquired from other Old Believer collectors. Unsurprisingly, his collection boasted the richest assortment of documents concerning the early history of the
Raskol . In 1866, he donated forty manuscripts to theRumyantsev Museum . The rest passed upon his death to theNikolsky Old Believer Monastery .After the
October Revolution , the Bolsheviks expropriated the Khludov collection, including its gem - the 9th-century illuminatedKhludov Psalter - and transferred 524 mediaeval manuscripts and 717incunabula to theState Historical Museum , in which they reside to this day.External links
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