On December 15, 2025, the State Historical Museum in Moscow hosted a presentation of a phototypic edition of the 1499 Gennady Bible, the first complete collection of books of Holy Scripture in the Church Slavonic language. The publication consists of nine volumes and is the result of fruitful cooperation between the Publishing House of the Sretensky Monastery and the State Historical Museum.
The event was attended by: Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, A.K. Levykin, General Director of the State Historical Museum, and Hieromonk Irinej (Pikovsky), Director of the Sretensky Monastery Publishing House.
Metropolitan Clement said in his speech that this year's edition of the Gennadiev Bible was awarded the main prize of the Enlightenment through the Book competition. The hierarch noted that the preparation of such a publication requires a lot of time and labor, the volumes were published over several years, from 2019 to 2025.
The Chairman of the Publishing Council noted that the compilers of the multi-volume work in the preface quote the words of Metropolitan Macarius (Bulgakov): "The gathering into one composition of all the books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in Slavic translation is an event of the greatest importance, constituting an epoch in the history of our Church and especially our spiritual literature."
Vladyka Kliment emphasized that thanks to modern technologies, detailed copies of the pages of this unique monument are now available to readers, and emphasized new ways of working with sources from past centuries: modern digital methods make it possible to create high-quality reproductions of ancient texts and study them on electronic devices. Digitization significantly expands access to historical documents for scientific work, education and research purposes.
At the end of his speech, Metropolitan Clement expressed gratitude to Hieromonk Irenaeus (Pikovsky), director of the Sretensky Monastery Publishing House, and to all the staff of the publishing house and the State Historical Museum who worked on the multi-volume work.