Abstract: The article describes the exhibitions prepared by the Department of Old Russian Art of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Scientific Library N.I. Lobachevsky of the Kazan Federal University in the period from 2013 to 2016. These projects reflect only a small part of the joint work of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan with the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Scientific Library N.I. Lobachevsky, all of them became significant events in cultural life of the city and the republic.