The Presidential Library presented a new issue of the “Rodina” magazine

On August 10, 2017, the Presidential Library hosted a presentation of a new August issue of the monthly historical and popular science magazine entitled “Rodina” (lit. the native land). The group of authors of the publication, staff employees and guests of the libraries in Ekaterinburg, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Perm, as well as the branches of the newspaper “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” in Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod and Krasnodar took part in the videoconference.

Magazine’s reviewer, PhD in Philosophy Semen Arkadiyevich Ekshtut presented the new issue of “Rodina.” The main theme of August was the 200th anniversary of the famous Nizhny Novgorod Fair. Apart from its history, the edition also tells about what kind of commodity was on demand at the fair, what manners prevailed there, what achievements of Russian engineers were demonstrated for the first time, what was an issue of the merchant's word, about many other interesting historical facts. Photographs of the XIX century will help to fully “plunge” into the history of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair.

This issue of the historical magazine Rodina is featuring for the first time previously unknown evidences of the investigation on “The Cause of General L. G. Kornilov” (August-November 1917) — the testimony of the main involved in the “case” person General Anton Denikin, in whose life the events of August 1917 became a turning point. Also readers of the publication will get a unique chance to get familiar with the notes of the American interventionist, who fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian North in 1918-1919.

Among the other topics are a fate of the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya called “without myths and rumors”, a key to a mystery of the famous photograph of the 117-year-old participant of the battle of Borodino, founded almost a hundred years ago Russian colony on the Korean Peninsula. Some articles are dedicated to the heroes of August anniversaries — a playwright Alexander Vampilov and a writer Yuri Kazakov. A traditional rubric “Rodina’s kitchen” tells about the prototypes of a modern refrigerator, and from the “Seal of the Epoch” column a reader will learn what the central and provincial newspapers wrote about in August 1917.

Presentations of the fresh issues of the historical and popular science magazine “Rodina” in the Presidential Library have become traditional. The event takes place monthly from April 2017 as part of an agreement on cooperation between the Presidential Library and the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” newspaper, which was signed at the end of 2016.

The cooperation between the Presidential Library and the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” is actively developing: in December 2016 a multimedia exhibition entitled “2016 year of the “Rodina” magazine: historical events in people's stories” was opened, and in February 2017 a public video lecturing, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1917 in Russia, with the participation of the authors of the historical magazine Rodina was held in the building on Senate Square. Digitized copies of that popular scientific publication are also gradually adding to the electronic stock of the Presidential Library.