Preface
Preface

Summary/Abstract: The 1st issue of volume 18 of Studies into the History of the Book and Book Col-lections journal (Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi) is ded-icated to the Ukrainian book heritage, which is now in danger of destruction due to the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine (2014-present). The full-scale military invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has had tragic consequences in the field of science and culture. For more than two years of active hostilities, almost two thousand cultural institutions were damaged or destroyed, not including individual objects of material her-itage. For example, in the spring and fall of 2022, the largest book collections in Ukraine suffered from the consequences of missile attacks by the Russian Federation. First, on 12 March, the Korolenko Kharkiv State Scientific Library of Ukraine, which houses more than seven million preservation items, including a unique collection of manuscripts and ancient printed books from the Volyn region, was destroyed. On 10 October, the historical buildings of the Ver-nadskyi National Library of Ukraine and the Maksymovych Scientific Library of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, located in the centre of Kyiv, on Volodymyrska Street, were damaged. Every day, in Ukraine, the world’s book heritage is under threat of destruction, in particular the valuable collection of the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanisław August Poniatowski

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