Discover Crimea with the Presidential Library

August 11, 2018 residents of the pearl of the Southern coast of Crimea - Yalta - will celebrate the City Day. This year the holiday promises to be especially bright: Yalta is 180 years old. The Presidential Library decided this was a good reason to include Yalta and Crimea in the new project "Discover Russia with the Presidential Library".

The Presidential Library portal features a collection of unique documents "The Republic of Crimea: Pages of History", which will be presented at the Livadia Palace of Big Yalta on September 18 at the conference. The event will be devoted to the problems of preserving the historical memory in the digital environment and will be held with the participation of libraries, archives, museums, mass media, and public organizations from different regions of Russia. The collection contains studies, essays, archive materials, rare books and photographs of the peninsula. Anyone can get familiar with the documents through the  centers of remote access of the Presidential Library, as well as on its portal. In Crimea, the centers of remote access to the Presidential Library collections, which currently number about 630,000 units of storage, operate on the basis of the I. Y. Franco Crimean Republican Universal Research Library in Simferopol, MBUK "Centralized Library System" in the town of Chernomorskoye. September 16, 2018 will be opened another remote electronic reading room - in the International Children's Center "Artek". Moreover, four remote access centers operate in the federally governed city - Sevastopol.

The collection of the Presidential Library "Republic of Crimea: Pages of History" is divided into four large sections: "Power", "People", "Territory" and "Russian language".

Of particular interest are pre-revolutionary, and Soviet pre-war postcards with views of major attractions of the Big Yalta: Massandra Palace, Livadia, "Swallow's Nest", etc.

As for the history of the Crimea as a whole, the Presidential Library provides a rare composition of the Polish bishop Adam Narushevich "Tavrikia, or News of the Ancient and Modern about the state of Crimea, and its inhabitants up to our times", published back in 1788.

About what happened on the peninsula half a millennium ago, you can read on our portal in the book of Ivan Kalugin "Diplomatic relations of Russia with Crimea during the reign of John III" and in the "Ancient book of the Crimean embassy affairs, 1474-1505".

The collection “On the Antiquities of the Southern Coast of Crimea and the Tauride Mountains” by Peter Keppen, published in 1837, details the location of each object of the southern part of the peninsula is described in detail.

Thanks to the documents from the Presidential Library collections, you can also learn about the Crimea of ​​the late XVIII century - in the book by Pavel Sumarokov "Journey Throughout Crimea and Bessarabia in 1799". And thanks to "The description of the residence of the imperial family in Crimea, in September 1837" you can visit Sevastopol together with Nicholas I or ride in a carriage to Bakhchisaray with his wife - the Empress. Finally, you can try to unravel the mystery of Alexander I's death by reading the rare "Detailed description of the journey of the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich to Taganrog, Crimea, the Caucasus Mountains and stay there, as well as the morbid state of the last days of life, death and burial ..."

Unknown pages of the Crimean War will unveil the unique books "The Landing of the Enemies in Crimea and the Battle of Alma" (1854) and the story of an eyewitness of the events of those years, the French general "Crimean Expedition".

Within the framework of the project "Discover Russia with the Presidential Library", publications will also include other regions of our country.

The Presidential Library pays much attention to the materials revealing the history of the regions of the Russian Federation. Currently, regional electronic collections contain documents on all 85 subjects of our country. In addition, to date, the Presidential Library has opened more than 600 centers of remote access in all regions of Russia.