The Presidential library featured a new issue of the Rodina historical magazine

On July 6, 2017, the Presidential Library hosted the presentation of a new, July issue of the monthly historical popular science magazine entitled Rodina (native land) Magazine. The authors of this publication, representatives of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta and the libraries of St. Petersburg, as well as staff employees and guests of the libraries from Ekaterinburg, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Perm, Volgograd and Gorodets, and the editorial staff of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta (newspaper) newspaper in Volgograd in videoconferencing mode joined the event.

A reviewer of the Rodina Magazine, Doctor of Philosophy Semen Arkadevich Ekshtut presented the new issue and announced a main theme of July: “29 friends of Pushkin: the fate of the first class graduated from lyceum 200 years ago.” From this material a reader will learn numerous details about each, without exception, classmate of the great poet: his lyceum nickname, his hobbies, what kind of relationship he had with Pushkin, and what place he mark for himself in history books.

There are General Lavr Kornilov, head of the Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky, leader of the revolution Vladimir Lenin, a teacher of the Moscow tsars Simeon Polotsky, a scholar and a poet Alexander Gorodnitsky among the heroes of the new issue of Rodina. A lot of interesting the reader will find in the materials dedicated to women-pilots of the Great Patriotic War, military searchers, intelligence service of Peter the Great and many other topics.

Presentations of the latest issues of the Rodina historical popular science magazine in the Presidential Library have already become traditional, according to Angelika Gurskaya, the director of the Northwest branch of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta. She mentioned that the event is part of a cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which was signed at the end of 2016.

The cooperation between the Presidential Library and the Rossiyskaya Gazeta is currently actively developing: in December 2016, a multimedia exhibition entitled “The Year of the Rodina Magazine 2016: historical events in personal stories” was opened in the building on Senate Square, in February 2017 public video lecturing dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Revolution of 1917 in Russia with the participation of the authors of the historical Rodina Magazine was held. Digitized copies of this popular science publication also gradually add to the digital fund of the Presidential Library.