The Presidential Library to host a creative online meeting with artist and publisher Nikolai Lokotkov

25 June 2020

On June 25, 2020 at 20:30 Moscow time, an online event called “Painting from the Province” will be held in the Presidential Library as part of the “Video Lecture to School” project. It will be attended by Nikolai Lokotkov, a member of the Union of Artists, a teacher, editor-in-chief and publisher of the Vvedenskaya Side party art magazine for schoolchildren, teachers and parents, winner of the D. Likhachev Prize for his outstanding contribution to the preservation of cultural and historical heritage.

A creative meeting will be held for schoolchildren of the Russian abroad living in different countries of the world: Austria, Hungary, Germany, Jordan, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Palestine, Portugal, France, the USA, as part of the international online project “Our Dear Russia”, organized by the Russian School No. 1 in Marbella (Spain) and the Dar Association (Morocco).

The event “Painting from the Province” will be broadcasted live on the Presidential Library’s YouTube channel, available to everyone.

Nikolai Lokotkov will share with the participants the accumulated creative experience, demonstrate his works, tell about the features of working with young masters of fine art and about a new project dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the artist, in which each of the children will be able to take part.

The first meeting with Nikolai Lokotkov at the Presidential Library took place in May 2018. It was attended by children from art schools in St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia. Last year, the Presidential Library prepared a documentary entitled “The Teacher of Drawing: The Story of a Magazine” about Nikolay Lokotkov’s contribution to preserving Russia's cultural heritage and educating the younger generation.

Earlier, online lessons were provided for Russian-speaking teenagers from different countries on the history of the Russian Constitution, state symbols of Russia, the activities of the Russian encyclopedist Mikhail Lomonosov. Records of all classes are available on the Presidential Library’s YouTube channel.

Moreover, the Presidential Library regularly holds interactive lessons, detailed information on which is available in "Multimedia Lessons" section on the institution's portal www.prlib.ru. Under the heading “Video lecture to school”, records of lectures and open lessons held at the Presidential Library are also presented.