In 1472, Sophia Palaiologina — niece of the last Byzantine emperor — married Ivan III, Grand Prince of Russia. But her real dowry wasn't gold or land. It was hundreds of ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts, possibly the last surviving pieces of the legendary Library of Constantinople. Texts by Homer, Aristotle, and Cicero that the rest of the world believed were gone forever.
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The place
Moscow Kremlin
The Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible
The greatest missing treasure in world history
1472 - presentMoscow Kremlin
عبرة القصة
“The greatest treasures are sometimes hidden by the very power that should protect them”
الشخصيات
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Ivan IIIS
Sophia PalaiologinaI
Ivan the TerribleA
Aristotele FioravantiJ
Johann WettermanP
Professor StelletskyS
Stalinالمصدر
Johann Wetterman's account (c. 1570), Professor Stelletsky's research (1894-1930s), Byzantine marriage records