Penza Regional Centre of Presidential Library held celebration dedicated to family

M.Yu. Lermontov Penza Regional Library where the Regional Centre of the Presidential Library operates, a Celebration of Sun and Family was organised for the residents of the district village of Zemetchino. The event was timed to coincide with the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, which is celebrated on 8 July.

The staff of the Regional Centre of the Presidential Library took an active part in preparing and holding the event.

The event began with a poetic warm-up "Tangled Lines". The children excitedly guessed characters from famous poems. Children and parents showed their erudition during the musical quiz "Strong Family". The most creative participants created an unusual bookmark with the image of friendly neighbours, and the most active ones danced and played mobile games.

The adults were interested in the electronic collection of the Presidential Library Family and traditional family values in Russia as the basis of Russian statehood, which contains various sources that reveal the history of the development of the institution of family in our country from the times of ancient Russia to the present time, as well as materials about family traditions, customs and holidays.

The leading librarian of the Penza Regional Centre of the Presidential Library Olga Bakhmutova offered the participants of the event to get acquainted with the digitised editions from this collection: "If you have already read all the fairy tales to your children from the nearest library, try, for example, to open the pedagogical magazine "Family and School" for February 1871 on the Presidential Library portal. Have you ever heard of the fairy tale How the rabbits defeated the cats? In the magazine in the section "Family reading" there are also descriptions of games, including board games, stories and fairy tales with illustrations, entertaining activities for children of different ages".

At the end of the event the children created a wall newspaper "Family is...". Its authors noted that they live in strong families, in an atmosphere of love and respect, where everyone supports each other.

The Presidential Library invites you to continue your acquaintance with the materials of the collection Family and Traditional Family Values in Russia as the Basis of Russian Statehood, which is based on research, journalistic materials, periodicals, archival documents, and visual sources and is always of great interest to users.