Science round us: history and present

The count Nicholas Petrovich Rumyantsev (1754-1826) was the passionate collector of books and the publisher It collected more than 28 thousand volumes which were cornerstone of Rumyantsevsky's meeting museums, founded in 1828. Subsequently museum moved from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. So - FEDERAL STATE-FINANCED INSTITUTION "RGB". By 1920 the State Rumyantsevsky museum was created as scientific center. Soon museums it was liquidated, but on the basis of it libraries the State library was open for the USSR to V. I. Lenin's name - the largest scientific information base of the country and...