The Croatian scholar in his Siberian exile in the second half of the XVIIth century. On Juraj Križanjić’s book collection in Tobolsk

Juraj Križanjić (1618–1683), one of the seventeenth-century encyclopaedists, who came to Russia from Croatia, was exiled to Tobolsk in 1661, where he spent fifteen years and wrote his best works, including the famous Politika. An attempt is made to identify the range of books and manuscripts possessed by the talented scholar in exile. The author of the article emphasizes that Križanjić’s personal collection of books in Tobolsk, despite its relative scarcity, was thoroughly selected and corresponded to the scholar’s research interests.