ONLINE PROJECTS

Please note that online projects are presented in the official language of the Russian Federation – Russian

 

The online project «Centuries-old Yugra» has been timed to coincide with the opening of the exhibition of the same name at the Presidential Library, which operates from September 16 to December 12, 2024. The project allows visitors to watch full-length documentaries that are presented at the exhibition.

 

The Presidential Library is continuing the series of online exhibitions, Discovering Russia, which focus on the history of Russian cities and towns. Each exhibition is dedicated to a different city. All of the virtual tours in this project are based on historical documents from the Presidential Library's collection and those of its partners.

There are several thousand cities in Russia, each with its own unique character and “heart”. Petrozavodsk, for example, is known as the "port of the five seas". The city stretches for almost 22 kilometers along the coast of Lake Onega and, through a network of rivers, lakes, and canals, has access to the Baltic, White, Barents, Caspian, and Black seas. The grandeur of Karelian nature and the history of Russia under Peter the Great are the main themes of the trip. Visitors can access old maps, plans, photographs, engravings, scientific articles, and travel notes via a direct link to the Presidential Library's online resources. Reference books and archival documents are also available in the library's electronic reading rooms. Travel around Russia with the support of the Presidential Library and discover the rich history, culture, and natural beauty of this vast country.

 

The Presidential Library, together with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, has prepared an online projectThe President of the Russian Federation is a guarantor of human rights and freedoms” dedicated to presidential authority in our country and the activities of the head of state as a guarantor of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. The electronic resource includes information from the digital collections of the Presidential Library “Institute of Presidency in Russia”, “Presidential Chronicle”, “Constitution - Basic Law”, as well as materials provided by the Institute of the Federal Ombudsman. Read more…

 

Marking the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Presidential Library provides online project Constitutional Human Rights: From Projects to Practice. The project has been created jointly with the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation based on materials from the electronic collection of the Presidential Library. Read more…

 

The Presidential Library features online project of the exhibition “The Pearls of the Collection of the Presidential Library “The House of Romanov. The Zemsky Sobor of 1613””, held from February 15 to May 5, 2023. The exhibition, marking the year of the 410th anniversary of the election of Mikhail Romanov to the Russian throne, was based on documents from a major electronic collection dedicated to the royal dynasty, as well as original editions of the 18th–20th centuries from the collection of rare books, which is available in the Presidential Library. Read more…

 

The electronic exhibition “Siberian Falcon” is timed to coincide with the 110th anniversary of the pilot, the first thrice Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin. The exposition is based on the materials from the Novosibirsk State Regional Research Library, which also took part in preparing the exhibition. A fragment from the metric book of the Novonikolayevsk Church of the Protection for 1913 with a record of the birth of Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin, photographs of the house where he lived and the school which he attended, photographs of Pokryshkin himself from different years – from a student to an air marshal, notebook pages with information about the points of sorties and the number of downed aircraft, manuscripts and other digitized materials presented at the exhibition tell about the combat path and post-war life of the famous pilot, awards, memorial sites and educational institutions named in his honour. Valuable documents and illustrative materials were provided by the Novosibirsk State Local History Museum, the State Archive of Novosibirsk Region and the Pokryshkin Museum at the Novosibirsk Technical College. Read more…

 

From November 10, 2022 to January 29, 2023 the Presidential Library’s exhibition halls hosted the exhibition “Viktor Matorin. Images of Russian History in Painting. XXI Century". It was based on an online project of the same name.

Viktor Viktorovich Matorin (b. 1971) is a recognized master of historical and landscape painting. The artist gives classes at the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He works at the Moscow State United Museum-Reserve and is the curator of the traveling exhibition project "Attraction of Realism". Viktor Matorin’s works are dedicated to understanding the historical past: the themes of his paintings are the events of the military and political history of Russia and their heroes. The Internet project presents digital images of the most significant historical paintings of the artist: "Holy Blessed Great Moscow Prince Dmitry Donskoy", "Khan Mamai", "Strike of the Ambush Regiment", "Battle on the Ice" and etc., as well as the works dedicated to historical monuments in Izmailovo - the royal residence of the XVII century.
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The Presidential Library presents an online project for the exhibition “Discovering Russia with the Presidential Library”, held within its walls from September 6 to October 30, 2022. The exhibition introduces the history and sights of Russian cities that celebrated their anniversary in 2022: Moscow (875 years), Murom (1160 years), Kursk (990 years), Totma (885 years), Vologda (875 years), Veliky Ustyug (875 years), Kostroma (870 years) and Sergiyev Posad (685 years). The project demonstrates old maps and plans, documentary evidence of famous natives, places and events – everything that will allow learning about this or that city better. More...

 

The Presidential Library presents an online project based on the exhibition “Creator of the Russian Welfare…” that was held from May 13 to August 14, 2022, marking the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great. The featured materials reveal the history of the creation of the fleet and the regular army by Peter I and introduce reforms in the field of public administration: the establishment of the Senate and the Synod, the formation of the executive authorities - boards. The project showcases such monuments as “Civil primer book with moralizing”, “Honest mirror of youth”, and on the example of the laws “on the wearing of every rank of people of German dress and shoes…”, “on shaving beards and mustaches of every rank of people, except for priests and deacons…” allows readers to trace how the way of life of Russian society has changed. Part of the documents is devoted to the personality of Peter I, the most important events of his biography, which influenced the formation of the emperor's worldview. The project also features materials spotlighting the memory of Peter, including rare images of historical places associated with his name. More...

 

Marking the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great, the Presidential Library has prepared an electronic exhibition “Peter’s Petersburg – the economic centre of the Russian state”. The map of St. Petersburg of the XVIII century marks the objects of the Peter’s epoch associated with the economic reforms of Peter the Great. Rare documents from the Presidential Library’s digital collections tell about the development of trade, industry and production since 1703 and the management of economic activity of the Russian state. The exposition was showcased on the St. Petersburg stand on the platform of SPIEF-22, as well as in the Presidential Library.

   

In 2022 Russia celebrates Peter the Great’s 350th anniversary. Thus, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with the Presidential Library, is featuring a project called the Library of Peter Ι. The collection of manuscripts, books and graphics, collected during the life of the emperor, formed the country's first public library, which he created. For many decades, BAN specialists have been examining and restoring this collection, unique in its diversity and content. The project features handwritten books, both those that belonged to the closest relatives of Peter I, and those donated to him personally; copies of printed books purchased in Europe by his order and numerous handwritten maps.

   

Marking the 13th anniversary of the formation of the Presidential Library and the All-Russian Day of Libraries the Presidential Library has prepared an online project “The Ensemble of the Senate and Synod buildings”. The architectural ensemble of the Senate and the Synod is housed on Senate Square in the historic center in St. Petersburg. This place is associated with the history of St. Petersburg and the Russian Empire. Not only the history of the city, but the entire state has been changed in the functional purpose, architecture and nature of local buildings as in a mirror. The Internet project provides opportunity to learn about the main milestones in the development of the territory where the Presidential Library is housed, the history of the creation of the ensemble of the Senate and the Synod buildings as well as the activities of institutions located here at different times.

   

World War II and the Great Patriotic War in documents and evidence of the era: distance lesson / Presidential Library, [Scientific and Educational Department]; Alla Ryabova, methodologist of the Scientific and Educational Department of the Presidential Library. - St. Petersburg: Presidential Library, 2021.

Part 1: September 1931 - May 1945 - 2021. - 1 video file (17 min. 03 sec).
https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1326893

Part 2: May 1941 - September 1945 - 2021. - 1 video file (19 min 46 s).
https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/1326895

   

The Presidential Library presents a new multimedia exhibition “The Great Patriotic War, which determined the outcome of the Second World War. Marking the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945”.

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Electronic exhibition "Petrograd in 1917: what, where, when. Marking the 100th anniversary of the Revolution in Russia" is devoted to the revolution of 1917 in Russia, which key events took place in Petrograd. More...