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 People from all over the world are keen on interpreting various
historic, mystic and psychological pseudo secrets created by the impetuous
fantasy of Dan Brown and people like him. And it is surprising that one of the most effective and showy
secrets of the real history are not revealed to the wide public. It is in the
aware of the intimate circle of people with active, perhaps, too active social
positions. It concerns the so-called Liberia or the library belonging to the
Russian tsar Ivan Vasilyevich aka Ivan the Terrible which disappeared
mystically.
Liberia has nothing to do with Liberia, a country in Africa.
The Latin word «liber» stands for «book», so Liberia means library, the
collection of books in Greek. Liberia is the collection of books belonging to Ivan
the Terrible and the books were of greatest value. The importance of the supposed
library of Ivan Vasilyevich is first determined that it is of Constantinopolitan
origin. The lords of Byzantine Empire, the former Oriental Roman Empire in the
old times supposedly collected the rarest antique and early mediaeval papyruses,
books and manuscripts. In the middle of XV century the Byzantine Empire fell
under the Ottoman Turkish nation attack and this invaluable collection off
books was evacuated from Constantinople.
The most interesting is the fact that the Byzantine princess
Sophia of the Palaeologus family, the niece to the latest Emperor marred to the
Great Prince of Moscow Ivan III and it is stated that she arrived to Russia
with that precious library of her ancestors as the dowry. Furthermore the collection
was replenished with new arrivals, mainly with rare church books and by the
time of reigning of Ivan the Terrible the collection totaled over 800 rarest
and most invaluable volumes. According to the information under dispute from the
so-called «list by Dabelov», the library contained such worthless books for the
modern science and culture as the full version of «History» by Titus Livius (today
only 5 of 142 volumes are available); several volumes of «History» by M.
Claudius Tacitus, likely unknown to the modern scientists; «History» by Polybius,
also in the edition not accessible for the wide public; anonymous works by Publius
Vergilius, Pindarius, Marcus Tullius Cicerō, Calvus and other famous thinkers,
poets and public characters of the antique time. The ancient Прибавьте сюда якобы
находящиеся там же древние manuscripts from Egypt, Phoenicia, Judea, China and India
and you will acquire the treasure that is culturally priceless and which is
evaluated in billion or sometimes several billions dollars. There is little
information about this library since it was concealed in the particular secret
compartment.
There were too many people willing to get to secret place since
the early XVIII century when they made digging works to find the treasure in
five different points of the Moscow Kremlin, however everyone failed. The library
was searched in the second half of the previous century and in 30s of the previous
century Stalin personally permitted to make digging works in the territory of
the Kremlin. Since 90s the works intensified though nothing was found. Plenty
of guesses and version make confusions about the disposition of the secret
place which is around sixty where the books were buried y the order of Ivan the
Terrible. The most general and likely potential places included Moscow Kremlin,
House by Pashkov where several underground lines are located when the data on medieval
wells came during construction of the underground station, the regal residence
Kolomenskoe, the Alexandrovs village, «capital» oprichnina (special
administrative elite under tsar Ivan the Terrible; its territory and army) and
Vologda here Ivan the Terrible visited regularly. The largest problem is that the
library by Ivan the Terrible is the vast but not so worthless collection
containing mainly medieval church books.
The point is that the qualified historians operate the various
justified opinions and doubts that the library by Ivan the Terrible ever
contained rare antique books and whatever books from collections by the Constantinopolitan
Emperors. There is no data, first of all, that Sophia of the Palaeologus family
arrived in Moscow with any books, leaving apart hundreds of them. She was hardly able to bring anything with her
since the members to the imperial family of he Byzantine Empire escaped the
capital with some of belongings on them and further their financial state was
not prosperous if not difficult. Here they would not fail to sell some of them
to improve their financial state. Yet, Sophia
fail to marry anyone sine there was no one among the young men to marry a «dowerless
girl».
Moreover, there are unreliable evidences considered by the followers
of Liberia theory. Some of them were distorted later and some of them are found
to be inauthentic, as the much talked-about «list by Dabelov».
Yet, finally, modern scientists are rather confident to affirm
that they have a lot to discuss the fate of books that belonged to Ivan the
Terrible. It is possible to define the trace they paved in private collections and
state librarian archives. Therefore, the amateurs of historic secrets are
likely to find the other legend on secrets of previous times.
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