
The Tambov Regional Center of the Presidential Library provides a virtual reference service "The Russian language"
The regional center of the Presidential Library at the Pushkin Tambov Regional Universal Scientific Library provides a virtual reference service "The Russian Language", responding to requests from visitors and remote users related to the study, consolidation, expansion of knowledge in the field of the Russian language, literature, reading culture. The virtual platform enables everyone to communicate comfortably and freely on the principle of "question-answer" with the teaching staff of the Institute of Philology of the Derzhavin Tambov State University and competent specialists of the library sphere.
As part of the specialized service, the employees of the Tambov Regional Center of the Presidential Library invite readers to touch the history of their native language, captured in the documents of the electronic collection of the Presidential Library "The Russian Language".
Of particular interest is the rare edition - "Civil Alphabet with Moralities", published in 1710. The copy of the book is the first official Russian civil alphabet and contains corrections personally made by Peter the Great in the composition and shape of the letters.
The collection also includes such treasures of Russian culture as "The Laurentian Chronicle", "Teaching of Prince Vladimir Monomakh to his children" in Old Russian.
The famous "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" by V. I. Dahl, which helps to explain the meaning of words used in oral and written speech of the 19th century, arouses great interest among readers.
The materials of the collection can not only be used for independent work of all categories of users, but also become the basis for conducting school lessons and lectures.