Presidential Library’s cinema club to show and discuss “Frontier area” film

On August 30, 2018 at 3 p.m. the Presidential Library is holding another meeting of the cinema club. The documentary entitled “Frontier Area”, which is the result of joint efforts of the Presidential Library’s film crew and the Bryansk State Museum of Local History, will be shown as part of the meeting. The cinema club hall of the Presidential Library will bring together specialists of the St. Petersburg State University Institute of History, Kirillo-Belozersky State Historical Architectural Art Museum-Reserve and other organizations, while representatives of the Bryansk State Museum of Local History and their colleagues from regions will join the discussion via video-conferencing.

The film spotlights the history of Bryansk land and its ancient cities of Russia. Events, that took place here in the past, are presented in the chronicle “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”. Archaeological monuments of world importance on the Desna River and the Russian Plain – the only sources, that give a chance to study the life of this area from the Middle Paleolithic to the time of Ancient Rus’, give proof of those events. The Bryansk Museum of Local History keeps an extensive archaeological collection, which is presented in the film by Vladimir Alexeev, Deputy Director of the museum.

The Bronze, Copper, Iron Ages… Artifacts of the Bryansk Museum illustrate the way of life of tribes, which had inhabited the area. Gradually the population became sedentary. Many fortified settlements appeared: people of Bryansk area were always ready to defend themselves from nomads – the Scythians. The Bryansk Museum exposition displays Scythian triangular copper arrows.

The military glory of Bryansk is linked with the glory of the city, which became the forge of Russian weapons. During the reign of Peter I an arsenal was set up here: at first as workshops for repairing weapons and artillery, – and later it was turned into shipyards for building wooden vessels, which remained throughout the 17th century.

The area, that was the frontier, became a part of the central Russia in the modern history. Present-day Bryansk is again the outpost in the west of the country. All these transformations in the history of the Russian city with half a million inhabitants are highlighted in the film. The film also presents sunsets in the green floodplain of the Desna river, and beautiful paintings illustrating the history of the Battle of Kulikovo, and most importantly, the museum’s exhibits that are brought alive by the narrator.

“It was in 2010 when I came to my native village that I began shooting this film, – tells Tatyana Dyakonova, film director of the Presidential Library. – I wished to capture the nature, people of his area and their traditions – what shapes our national identity”.

The meeting of the cinema club will be held in the Multimedia Hall, Presidential Library: Senate Square, 3. To confirm your participation please call (812) 305-16-35; +7 921 594-16-13 or contact us by e-mail smolina@prlib.ru, Yelena Viktorovna Smolina.

Accreditation for media representatives is available until August 29, 2018, 2 p.m.

Please forward applications for accreditation in the attached form with "Media Accreditation" note  to: media@prlib.ru,  pechnikova@prlib.ru, Tatyana Pechnikova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 534; mob. +7 921 998-06-78. The letter should feature the full name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers, name of the media.

Please, note, that to enter the Presidential Library you need to submit advance notice and show your passport: participants and guests of the event use entrance № 1, media representatives go through entrance № 2.