OBOLENSKY, M.A., ed. SOBORNAYA GRAMOTA dukhoventva pravoslavnoy vostochnoy tserkvi, utverzhdayushchaya san tsarya za velikim knyazem Ioannom IV Vasil'evichem 1561 goda [Collective decree of the clergy of the Orthodox Eastern Church confirming the royal title of Tsar for Grand Prince Ivan IV Vasilyevich, 1561]. Moscow: Synodal Press, 1850.

50 pp.; 32 × 24 cm. Unbound. Original publisher’s wrapper preserved only as the rear cover. Text block in good condition. Minor soiling, tears and small losses at the edges of the leaves, horizontal fold mark, foxing. Pre-revolutionary stamp 'Library of the Brotherhood of St Peter the Metropolitan'. Engraved bookplate of Martin Winkler (by A. Kravchenko) on the second leaf. Edition prepared by Prince Mikhail Andreevich Obolensky (1805–1873), archaeographer and director of the Moscow Main Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He headed the manuscript department of the Armoury Chamber, was a member of the Archaeographic Commission and a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg. In the introductory study the editor examines the origins of the royal regalia in Russia. The full text of the charter is printed in Church Slavonic type and in Greek. Provenance: The Brotherhood of St Peter the Metropolitan in Moscow — an informal ecclesiastical association of clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church, founded in 1872 with the active participation of the clergy of the St Nicholas Edinoverie Monastery in Moscow, devoted to missionary activity aimed at bringing Old Believers back into the Orthodox Church. Martin Winkler (1893–1982), German cultural and art historian, professor, specialist in Old Russian art, member of the German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe.