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An electronic fund of the Presidential Library opens Christmastime traditions
“There is no such people who has so much fun on Christmas holidays like our Russian, which, thanks to God, has not yet become foreign. It will be its own as long, as it will be inspirited by the people’s feeling,” — Alexander Tereshchenko writes in his book entitled A way of life of the Russian people. Christmastide of 1848, an electronic copy of which is available in the Presidential Library stock.
The Presidential Library: the history of the country in the mirror of children's media
January 13 marks the Day of the Russian Press, which has its own unique history that goes back to centuries. On this day in 1703 in Moscow, by decree of Peter the Great, the issue of the first Russian printed newspaper “Vedomosti” was published. Among many innovations of Peter it remained one of the most durable and effective engines of social development.
Peter I about the prosecutor-general in the documents of the Presidential Library: "This is my eye, that will see everything"
January 12, Russia marks the Day of the Prosecutor's Office worker. The portal of the Presidential Library features rare materials that reveal the history of the emergence and formation of the prosecutor's office as an institution of power. In addition to old publications, there are also modern scientific works reflecting the entry of the prosecutor's office into the national security system of the country. The role of the first emperor of Russia in this process is difficult to overestimate.
The Presidential Library invites to the presentation screenings of the movies of its own production
Two movies released by the Presidential Library entitled ““The icebreaker “Krasin.” 100 years in the history of Russia” and “To arrange everything such a way that all will be new” will be shown on January 2018 on the Presidential Library website under the Live Broadcast section. The television studio of the Presidential Library brand released these movies.
2018 calendars of the Presidential Library: at the heart of discoveries — knowledge
The Presidential Library is featuring on its website the own brand-named 2018-year calendars, designed shortly before the New Year’s. Their themes demonstrate a diversity of the activities of the Presidential Library as the largest outreach and educational center.
The Presidential Library will save a heritage of Daniil Granin, who was called a classic already while alive
January 1 marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Daniil Alexandrovich Granin. To the 100th anniversary of the writer, which will be celebrated in 2019, the Presidential Library with the assistance of the St. Petersburg Administration plans to digitize the literary heritage of a writer.
Winter holiday tradition at its finest is introduced in the new electronic collection of the Presidential Library
Winter holiday season’s tradition goes way back in the past. To read about it in more detail is possible on the Presidential Library website owing to the new electronic collection focused on “New Year’s Day and Christmas Day in Russia,” which is including rare books and illustrations.
The Presidential Library today in the figures, facts, and plans
A volume of the Presidential Library electronic stock exceeded in 2017 600,000 entries. The General Director of the Presidential Library Alexander Vershinin officially announced this. He has made it plain that more than 60 million scans of various kinds of documents relating to the history, theory and practice of Russian statehood, the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation are now included into the national information resource.
An outstanding architect Carlo Rossi dreamed to make the other Rome out of St. Petersburg”
December 29, 2017, marks the 242th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding architect, one of the creators of the unique image of St. Petersburg Carlo Ivanovich Rossi.
A revival of the historical ballroom dance tradition — in the Presidential Library
“The Presidential Library is intended to save a historical and a cultural heritage in the archival and book materials,” — the General Director of the Presidential Library Alexander Vershinin told this opening the first in the history of the St. Petersburg Suvorov Military School of the Ministry of the Interior New Year’s Ball. “Today, the Suvorov Military School students, who will restore the historical traditions of the balls themselves, came to us. And this is symbolic,” — he said.