معركة هيداسبس
هي معركة انتصر فيها جنود الإسكندر الأكبر على الملك بورس قرب نهر جيلوم عام 326 ق
م وكانت رابع وآخر المعارك الكبرى للإسكندر في حملة آسيا بعد غزوه للإمبراطورية الإخمينية
The Battle Between Alexander the Great and the Indian King Porus. Tinted woodcut.
First half of the 18th century
The world-famous collection of
popular prints housed in the National Library of Russia comprises some 12,000
items. Most often termed lubki, these prints appeared in Russia late in the
seventeenth century and were widely used for the decoration of homes and inns.
The majority of them are now lost due to the ephemeral nature of paper. Some
prints of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries survived only within
collections, the earliest of which was assembled by Jacob von Stahlin. In 1766
by the Saviour Gate of the Kremlin in Moscow he bought a job lot of prints with
religious and secular subjects produced from wooden blocks and for the most
part hand-coloured
