Films, video lectures, and webinars about Russian history available on Presidential Library's TV channel

In the TV Channel section the Presidential Library's portal broadcasts films, video lectures and webinars prepared by the institution, as well as video tapes from leading domestic film and TV studios, around the clock. This means that it is convenient for users from any region of Russia, as well as from any country, to watch them. We invite readers to familiarize themself with the most striking film screenings dedicated to memorable and significant dates, from March 1 to March 15.

Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolai Karamzin, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Alexander Ostrovsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov and Julian Semenov will be the heroes of the videos that will be shown on the Presidential Library's portal on March 3, World Writer's Day.

March 6 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the newspaper for children Pionerskaya Pravda. The broadcast of the Presidential Library's webinars on the education of the younger generation is timed to coincide with this date. So, thanks to the webinar On the International Children's Day, anyone can learn unknown facts from the history of children's education and leisure. It is perfectly illustrated by ancient alphabets and atlases of the XVIII century, textbooks of the XIX century, entertaining guides for children's reading, moral books, as well as magazines Murzilka, Pioneer, Zateynik, familiar to every Soviet student. The materials presented during the Golden Age of Childhood webinar show the transformation of the perception of "childhood" in 19th-century Russia and the differences in the upbringing, lifestyle and living conditions of children from families of different classes and affluence.

Our contemporary, the publisher of the All-Russian children's art magazine Vvedenskaya Side, an artist and teacher from Staraya Russa, Nikolai Lokotkov, has long been firmly established in the Russian countryside. What's keeping him there? The answer to this question is given by the film The Art Teacher: the Story of a magazine, prepared by specialists of the Presidential Library.

Women's education in Russia and the Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens, the brilliant ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya and the wife of Prince Vsevolod Bolshoe Gnezdo Maria Yasynya, the lessons of faithfulness by Xenia the Blessed and music from the time of Empresses Anna Ioannovna and Elizabeth Petrovna – these and other topics will make up the program of broadcasts on International Women's Day on the TV channel of the Presidential Library.

March 10 marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of the Russian Emperor Alexander III. The webinar Coronation Celebrations in Russia is timed to coincide with this date. The sacred coronation, or crowning to the kingdom, was one of the most important ceremonies associated with state power. The audience will be presented with an overview of historical essays contained in the Presidential Library's collection, memoirs of contemporaries about the celebrations, descriptions of the ceremony, highly artistic coronation albums, and popular publications for the people.

On Archives Day, March 10, users will have the opportunity to watch a video that tells about the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation, established on December 31, 1991; learn about the history of the State Archival Service of Russia; about the digital space of the state archives of St. Petersburg; about the results and prospects of cooperation between archives and libraries, about the acquisition of archives, museums and libraries, personal archives, and more.

On March 12, 1918, the capital of Russia was moved from Petrograd to Moscow. On this day, documentaries and historical films by the famous journalist Innokenty Ivanov will be shown on the portal. The film The General Staff in the context of the revolutionary events of 1917 tells about the building of the General Staff in St. Petersburg, which housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire, and later the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, as well as about Russia's foreign policy in 1917-1918. The film Mariinsky Palace tells about the activities of the State Council, which met in the palace from 1885 to 1917, then the Provisional Government, and the All–Russian Commission for Elections to the Constituent Assembly. The documentary Kshesinskaya Mansion tells how the fate of the famous ballerina developed after the revolutionary events and about the history of her mansion, which, according to Petrograd newspapers, in 1917 began to be called the "main headquarters of the Leninists."

On March 13, 1954, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Union-Republican state administration body in the field of state security (KGB) under the Council of Ministers of the USSR was formed by separating a number of departments, services and departments from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. By this date, the video lectures The Origins and Formation of the System of State Security Agencies, Soviet Foreign Intelligence in the Pre-War and Wartime Period, SMERSH of the Leningrad Front, Hacking the Manhattan Project and the Role of the Cambridge Five in this project and others will be shown.

Especially for students, video lectures are available on the library's portal, covering topics that expand and supplement the school curriculum. The video lecture Knowledge of Russia focuses on the main areas of the Presidential Library's collection: the history of the Russian state and law, as well as Russian as the official language of the Russian Federation. Experts from scientific and educational institutions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian cities give lectures to viewers.

The Presidential Library provides films and video lectures, as well as videos from leading domestic film and television companies, which are available around the clock on its poartl under the TV Channel section. In this section, viewers can also find the upcoming schedule for broadcasts.

Please note that the library's live broadcasts are available in the Live broadcasts section, and the library's program for the upcoming days is published here.

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