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The Presidential Library’s video lecture told about the outstanding historian Viktor Paneyakh

21 February 2022

The Presidential Library hosted a video lecture dedicated to the historian Viktor Paneyakh (1930–2017) as part of the Knowledge of Russia project. The lecture continued the series Outstanding Historians of the 19th-20th Centuries which the Presidential Library is conducting jointly with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

The exhibition dedicated to Russian heraldry opened at the Presidential Library

17 February 2022

On February 17, 2022 the historical building of the Synod on Senate Square, 3 hosted the grand opening of the exhibition "Heraldic Art". The exposition was prepared by the Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation and the Presidential Library and is timed to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the King of Arms by Peter the Great, as well as the 30th anniversary of the restoration of the Heraldic Service in the Russian Federation.

The Presidential Library published a new book to mark Mikhail Speransky’s anniversary

15 February 2022

2022 marks the 250th anniversary of Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky, an outstanding statesman, lawyer and lawmaker. This is a worthy occasion to revisit the legacy of the famous personality, to rethink his role in the evolution of the Russian state and law, to recall the documents and testimonies of contemporaries and to introduce new materials into scientific circulation.

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