5 Hryven The Ostroh Academy

Reverse

In the center of the composition there is a depiction of a teacher and students; against the background there are the Round tower and church outlines. The general background combining this picture is the first page of the Ostroh ABC book printed at Ivan Fedorov`s printing house; to the left there is the family emblem of the prince Vasyl K.Ostrozhskiy and a semicircular inscription: ОСТРОЗЬКА АКАДЕМІЯ (Ostroh academy), and beneath, there is the Academy foundation date - 1576

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
ОСТРОЗЬКА АКАДЕМІЯ
1576

Engraver: Sviatoslav Ivanenko

Designers: Sviatoslav Ivanenko, Serhii Beliaiev

Edge

Reeded

Comment

The сoin is dedicated to the Ostroh academy, the first Ukrainian high level school founded by Vasyl Konstiantyn Ostrozkyi in 1576. The Slavic, Greek and Latin languages were taught in the high school, as well as the so-called free sciences (Grammar, Arithmetic, Rhetoric, Logics, etc.) The writer and scientist Meletii Smotrytskiy, hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi and other famous people were among the high school graduates. Ostroh academy was closely linked to the printing-house, where works of the school tutors were printed and in 1581 Ivan Fedorov printed here the Bible a.k.a. the Ostroh Bible.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2001	30000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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