Pontificio Istituto Orientale Review

After the publication in 1919 of Pope Benedict XV of the encyclical "Maximum illud", the establishment of the Eastern Institute in Rome became an implementation of respectful attitude to national cultures, especially to the eastern richness of the church tradition. All this work began to concentrate in the walls of the institute, and the library became a repository of relevant documents.
The library fund contains about 200 thousand volumes. A unique book collection was created over the years. The first head of the institute, Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d'Herbigny (1880-1957), gave books to the library that he bought during expeditions and business trips to the USSR and other countries of Eastern Europe. Among the donors were Russian priests, collectors and bibliophiles Kirill Korolevsky, Stanislav Tyshkevich and Alexander Sipyagin. Their personal books with ex-libris, autographs, marginalia and notes can be unexpectedly encountered while working with the fund.
The famous prefect of the Eastern Congregation, Cardinal Yevgeny Tisseran (1884-1972), also attentive to the formation of the library fund of the institute, where he passed many books. In addition to numerous versatile classes, he also oversaw the issues of Russian religious life abroad. Thanks to him, a Russian nunnery was founded in honor of the Assumption of the Virgin in Rome, led the relocation and placement of Russian refugees from Europe to other countries of the world after the Second World War, participated in the creation of the Russian-language publishing house "Life with God" in Brussels in 1946.
Here they taught: Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (18661949), Tatyana Lvovna Sukhotina-Tolstaya (1864-1950). There was also the head of the department of foreign literature of the Public Library named after A.Kh. Saltykov-Shchedrin in Leningrad, Julia Danzas (1879-1942). Other institute's posessors are aristocrat, archbishop and diplomat Alexander N. Evreinov (1877-1959); priests, prince Sergei Nikolayevich Obolensky (1909-1992); priest, Count Stanislav Mikhailovich Tyszkiewicz (1887-1962); exegete priest Stefan Virgulin (1918-1997). The artist was associated with artists Leonid Mikhailovich (1867-1937) and Rimma Nikitichna Brailovskie (1877-1959).

It's the best resource place for those who love Oriental churches and theology

Careful organization. Well arranged and capacious classrooms. Attention to health issues

Courses for the knowledge of Arabic also free, very interesting library for the purchase of texts on the churches in the East.