July 23, 2018 marks 226th anniversary of the birth of one of Alexander Pushkin’s closest friends - Pyotr Vyazemsky (1792–1878), who is better known as a literary critic, a historian, a translator, the first chairman of the Russian Historical Society, and is lesser known as a hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. Electronic copies of unique editions from the Presidential Library’s collections cast the light on this part of his life along with other rare facets of his personality. They feature in particular “Letters of Nikolai Karamzin to Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky. 1810–1826”, “Letters of Pyotr Vyazemsky: based on papers of Pyotr Chaadayev”, as well as prince’s memoirs illustrating his participation in the Battle of Borodino and other sources.

On Tuesday the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg is launching "Northern flowers" photo exhibition, marking 65th anniversary of Norilsk. It will illustrate the nature and everyday life of the arctic city, the library’s press service announces.

"The exposition, built up jointly with “Nornikel”, highlights 65th anniversary of Norilsk, one of the world’s northernmost cities with the total population of over 100 000 people. Plasma panels in the Presidential Library’s multimedia gallery will give a fresh perspective on  Norilsk: visitors won’t  see the technological power of one of the world’s largest mining and metal producing plants, but, on the contrary, they will discover the fragile and gentle nature of this severe northern region, and everyday life of its people", - the announcement reads.

July 2018 sees the centenary of the death of the last Russian Emperor of the Romanov House – Nicholas II and his family: Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, and courtiers. They were murdered on the night of July 16-17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg in the basement of the house of the  mining engineer Nikolai Ipatyev. 

The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library — a digital national library in St. Petersburg

The Presidential Library is the state digital repository of electronic copies of major documents on history, theory and practice of Russian statehood, Russian language, as well as the multimedia multifunctional (cultural, educational, academic and information-analytical) center.