Zbraslav is a town on the river Vltava, Bohemia, Czech Republic, having 1.193 inhabitants (2002) and administratively forming the southernmost part of Prague.

Zbraslav was founded in 1118. In 13th century, the Bohemian king Wenceslas II founded here a cloister of monks of the Cistercian Order. The Zbraslav cloister was called Aula regia and was ordered to be the burial place of Bohemian kings.

In 1935, V. F. Bulgakov founded here an important Russian Museum with collections dedicated to Russian emigrants, but the museum was closed and confiscated by the communists before 1948.

Today, Zbraslav is a residential town of Prague suburbs and the seat of Chinese and Japanese collections of the Czech National Gallery .

Important personalities

• Petr Žitavský (1270 – 1339), abbot of the Zbraslav cloister, polititian and author of the Zbraslav Chronica, history of Bohemia in 13th and early 14th century.
• Vladislav Vančura, famous novelist.
• Jaromír Vejvoda (1902 – 1988), musician, author of famous BeerBarrel-Polka (Roll out the Barrels) of WWII.

External links

• Town of Zbraslav [1]
• Jaromir Vejvoda [2]