The Presidential Library and the Kostyor magazine announce a competition for schoolchildren

1 January – 15 November 2022

“My Peter I” is the name of the competition dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian emperor. The competition is organized by the All-Russian literary and art magazine for schoolchildren Kostyor and the Presidential Library. The competition is held from January 1 to November 15, 2022. Russian schoolchildren and students of secondary educational institutions under the age of 17 are invited to participate, regardless of the region of residence.

The goals and objectives of the creative competition are the formation of love for reading and the history of their country, the promotion of works of historical literature, creative self-realization.

Essays devoted to Peter I and his activities will be accepted for the competition. Creative works should be prepared using materials from the Presidential Library’s collections. They should contain interesting facts about the first Russian emperor.

The following requirements are imposed on the work:

  • Only individual works are accepted.
  • Competitive work must be an essay about the plans, activities or accomplishments of Peter the Great, no more than 2,500 characters with spaces. One should note why Peter is of interest to a competition participant and what new things he learned about this Russian ruler.
  • When using a book from the electronic collections of the Presidential Library at the end of the work it is important to indicate the title of the book and a link to it.
  • All works must contain information about the author: surname and first name, age, class, information about the educational institution, city (settlement) of residence.
  • Works must be sent with the note "For the competition "My Peter I"" to the email root@kostyor.ru

Within 2022, the most interesting works will be published on the pages of the Kostyor magazine under the heading “My Peter I”. The results will be published in January 2023 in the first issue of the Kostyor magazine, on the website of the publication and on the pages of Kostyor in the "VKontakte" social network. The laureates will be awarded with diplomas and book prizes.

The Presidential Library and the Kostyor magazine are linked by many years of fruitful cooperation. Among the joint events is a round table on the prospects for the development of children's and youth media, which took place in 2018. Digitized rare copies of the Kostyor magazine are available in the Presidential Library’s collections and are constantly used to prepare thematic materials for the portal, as well as within the framework of events. So, in June 2018, during the Red Square book festival in Moscow, a reprint of the Kostyor magazine was awarded to the winners of the game - presentations of periodicals from the Presidential Library’s collections “My Familiar Unknown Magazines”. On June 1, 2020, the Children's Day, the Presidential Library’s Poetry Club held a virtual event "Children's Poetry Day", where poems from this popular children's publication were recited.

Regulations on the competition "My Peter I":

https://www.prlib.ru/sites/default/files/u535/polozhenie_o_konkurse_moy_petr_i.pdf