The oldest book of Rus was found only in 2000: three wax tablets with psalms from early 11th-century Novgorod.

1000 · 1057 · apart: 57 years

They predate the Ostromir Gospels of 1056–1057, the oldest precisely dated Russian book.

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• The Ostromir Gospels1057 · Novgorod. Deacon Grigory copied the Gospels for Ostromir, the governor of Novgorod, and dated his work 1056–1057. The parchment book with vivid miniatures is kept in the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg.

10th century · 11th century

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