The Presidential Library’s Poetry Club to host Children's Poetry Day

On June 1, the Children's Day, the Presidential Library's Poetry Club will host a virtual event called “Children's Poetry Day”. From 12:00 Moscow time on the official page of the Poetry Club on the VKontakte social network, a series of videos will be published, where employees of the Presidential Library’s user service department will read children's poems from the collection’s materials that are publicly available on the institution’s portal.

In particular, poetry from the famous children's magazines Murzilka and Kostyor will be heard. In addition to other materials (game sections, stories, articles), these periodicals have always pleased young readers with good poetry.

Thus, the literary and art magazine Murzilka involved a whole galaxy of future classics of children's literature: Korney Chukovsky, Agniya Barto, Samuel Marshak and others.

In 1936, the monthly magazine Kostyor was launched in Leningrad. In addition to the works of Marshak and Chukovsky, poems by other Soviet authors were also published - for example, the poetess Olga Bergholz and Elena Ryvina, whose military-patriotic poetry subsequently earned popular recognition, and children's prose writers - Lev Uspensky, Konstantin Paustovsky, Vitaliy Bianka, Evgeny Charushin. Poems of young children were also published in the magazine. For example, the poems of 13-year-old Nina Ostrovskaya and 14-year-old Bori Hessen from the June issue of Kostyor magazine for 1937, dedicated to the conquest of the North Pole, are very specific for their time.

At 16:00, the Presidential Library’s YouTube channel will host a live broadcast with a children's prose writer and poet, illustrator Victoria Toponogova. Victoria is the author of 11 books and many publications in periodicals, as well as the senior editor of the section “Poetry” on the portal “Children and Books” of the Creative Association of Children's Authors of Russia (TO DAR). This association is the successor of the International Creative Association of Children's Authors, which has existed for more than ten years. TO DAR promotes the work of promising authors and actively collaborates with many children's magazines - "Modern Kindergarten", "Literary Children's World" and others. During the creative meeting, Victoria Toponogova will not only present her books and read poetry, but also answer questions about life and career, share her opinion on children's reading in the Internet environment and the features of children's Runet.