Alexei Ivanovich Chludow
Alexei Iwanowitsch Chludow ( Russian Алексей Иванович Хлудов , scientific transliteration Aleksej Ivanovič Chludov ; born August 23, 1818 , † March 22, 1882 ) was a Russian old-believing merchant. He brought together the largest private collection of early medieval manuscripts in Tsarist Russia.
As the son of a farmer, Chludow rose to be a man of great wealth. He was chairman of the Moscow Stock Exchange Committee from 1859 to 1865. Chludow specialized in collecting early Russian, South Slavic and Greek religious manuscripts. In his will he bequeathed his collection to the Nikolsky Monastery in Moscow.
After the October Revolution , the Bolsheviks expropriated the Chludow collection, including the showpiece, the Chludow Psalter - an illuminated Byzantine manuscript from the mid-9th century. The 524 medieval manuscripts and 717 incunabula in the collection have been kept in the State Historical Museum in Moscow since 1917 .
Web links
- Alexei Ivanovich Chludow on megabook.ru (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Chludow, Alexei Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chludoff, Alexej Iwanowitsch; Хлудов, Алексей Иванович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian merchant and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1818 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1882 |