Video materials on Russian history available online

The Presidential Library’s portal from Monday to Friday in Live broadcasts section provides broadcasting of films, video lectures and tours prepared by the Presidential Library, as well as by leading film studios of the country.

The film Vologda Fortress of Ivan the Terrible, prepared by the specialists of the Presidential Library, will be shown in accordance with the broadcast program. The film tells about one of the greatest buildings from the epoch of the first Russian tsar. Did the tsar plan to move the capital to Vologda? Why did the Terrible stop the construction and leave the city? Was his departure somehow connected to the famous brick that fell from the Saint Sophia Cathedral? This and other questions are answered by experts and authors of the film.

The shooting of another film by the Presidential Library, The Saved Frescoes of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos of the Ferapontov Monastery, also took place in Vologda Region. The cathedral is famous for its frescoes by the follower of Andrei Rublev’s traditions, main icon painter of XV-XVI centuries Dionisius. This is the only preserved mural in Russia by him. The film tells about the restoration of the monument and the discoveries made in the process.

The film The Emperor Who Knew His Fate by the St. Petersburg Documentary Films Studio is dedicated to the last Emperor of Russia Nicholas II. Based on documentary materials, authors of the film explore various predictions and prophecies made to the Emperor in different periods of his life and his attempts to prevent them.

The video The Romanov Dynasty. The 400th anniversary of the Zemsky Sobor of 1613 will present the collection of the same name available on the Presidential Library’s portal that features digitized rare historical materials: official documents, memoirs, diaries, work and private correspondence, fragments of film chronicles, photographs and paintings, radio recordings, science fiction films, historical researches, bibliography, and others.

The album-catalogue of musical editions The 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov prepared together with the specialists of the Russian National Library will also be available on the Presidential Library’s portal.

A video lecture within the educational project of the Presidential Library video lecture Knowledge of Russia will tell about what helped Russian people to overcome the Times of Troubles and about the image of Mikhail Fyodorovich, the first Russian tsar of the House of Romanov, in the chronicles of his reign.

The program of Sergey Brilyov Right to the Right will explore the importance of the Constitution as a guarantee of the right to personal dignity, the decision-making procedure of the Constitutional Court, the beginning of the constitutional reform in 1993, as well as the ensemble of the Senate and Synode buildings, where the Constitutional Court and the Presidential Library are currently located.

The schedule of broadcasts of films and video lectures for the coming week is available on the Presidential Library’s portal in Live broadcasts section.

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