Notes and Letters of Yakov Shtelin. In 3 volumes

Before you a monument. The monument to a person who three centuries ago for fifty years of day, without tired, worked for the benefit of Russian culture. The fact that Jacob Schalen has has no analogies in the European Literature of the XVIII century on the history of art. No one in Western Europe could even think about the formulation of such a goal - writing the Stories of All Arts of their country. Schlyanin, who took this titanic work, was not a cabinet scientist, looking at the world from the window of his mansion and covered by the beads of Gothic Vzi hundreds of In-Folio sheets for the transfer of information that were drawn from other sources. Fifty years, he tirelessly contributed to his talent, extensive knowledge and immense hardworking the development of arts in Russia and secured on paper what he saw during this time recognized and heard