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Modest Mussorgsky: “Art is a means to talk with people, but not a goal!”
The descendant of an old princely family, dating back to the Rurikovich, and the grandson of the serf Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on March 21, 1839 in a family estate in the village of Karevo, Pskov province.
Alexander Mozhaysky. Sails and Wings
Alexander Mozhaysky is one of the most significant and at the same time ambiguous figures of Russian history of the 19th century.
The Presidential Library marking the anniversary of the classic of Nivkh literature
March 20, 2020 the Presidential Library via video-conferencing mode held a video lecture series of the “Knowledge of Russia” cycle, dedicated to the life and career of the first Nivkh writer and creator of the Nivkh alphabet, Vladimir Mikhailovich Sangi. The event was held as part of a cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the Sakhalin Regional Universal Scientific Library.
The final stage of "Russia in the Electronic World" Olympiad held in a remote format
The Presidential Library held the third and final stage of the annual interactive Olympiad for schoolchildren “Russia in the Electronic World” on history, social studies and the Russian language in long-distance learning format. 113 participants took part in the finals in history, 227 in social studies, 115 students from 52 regions of Russia in the Russian language. The lists of finalists are published on the website of the Olympiad and in the VKontakte group.
Korney Chukovsky. From early childhood and for the entire life
Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov (Chukovsky’s name) was born in St. Petersburg on March 31, 1882 in an unlawful marriage of the maid Katerina Korneychukova and the son of the owner, medical student Emanuel Levenson. Shortly after the birth of a son, the young man married a woman of his circle. A mother with two children had to leave, and the writer’s childhood passed in Odessa.
Russia and Crimea have a common destiny
Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea on the admission of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation and the formation of new entities within the Russian Federation was signed on March 18, 2014. This was the result of referenda where the majority of voters voted in favor of reunification with Russia.
55 years ago Alexei Leonov was the first to go out into outer space: “It’s easy to come out, but to stay ...”
March 18, 2020 marks 55 years since the day when the USSR pilot cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the world's first spacewalk. The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection Outer Space. It contains periodicals, books, newsreel fragments, which spotlight various milestones in the development of cosmonautics, including materials related to the life and career of the person who first went into outer space.
Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov. He united music and the sea
Music and the sea became his passion since childhood. Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov was born on March 18, 1844 in Tikhvin, into a noble family for whom maritime service was a tradition - the great-great-grandfather of the boy was rear admiral under Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, his uncle was rear admiral as well as his older brother later. Little Nick, who sought to imitate him, at the age of 12 entered the Naval Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg.
Alexander Popov’s priority in radio invention proved by Presidential Library’s sources
March 16, 2020 marks the 161st birth anniversary of the brilliant Russian electrical engineer, radio inventor Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859–1906). In addition to rare books about the scientific search and career of a scientist, such as the collection of documents Alexander Popov (1945), one can also find A commemorative sign on workshop № 3 of the Kronstadt Marine Plant, dedicated to the first radio engineering enterprise in Russia, opened at the initiative of Alexander Popov (St. Petersburg, Kronstadt)”(2014) .
The Presidential Library’s portal provides access to the concert dedicated to Ivan Bunin
March 16, 2020 at 19:00 the Presidential Library’s portal in Live broadcasts section, in the official group on the VKontakte social network and on the institution’s YouTube channel will provide a live broadcast of the concert “I thank you for all, God…”, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Ivan Bunin’s birth.