Publishing and educational activity Imperial Public Library

The article is devoted to a history of publishing activities of the Imperial Public library. The main focus of the article is reprinting by the library in 1855 of the main work of the eminent poet of Grand Duchy of Lithuania Nikolay Gusovsky - «Carmen Nicolai Hussoviani de statura, feritate, ac venatione Bisontis» (in Russian translation it is known as «A song of a bison»). The library prepared and published the reprint of the poem of N. Gusovsky more than 300 years later after its first and only edition. It became a noticeable event in the cultural life of all Europe. The book returned to people after a centuries-old oblivion the name and works of the great Slavic poet of the Renaissance and was a noticeable contribution to classic works of world literature. The article describes history of cultural and scientific contacts of the library, its activity in the field of education and enrichment of the national publishing repertoire of the Russian Empire.