Films and video lectures for schoolchildren and adults available online

The films and video lectures prepared by the Presidential Library, as well as the country's leading film studios, are now broadcast around the clock on the Presidential Library’s portal.

On February 16, 1571 Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich (the Terrible) approved the “Boyar verdict on the village and guard service” - the first military charter of Russia that has survived to this day. The screening of the film of the Presidential Library "The Vologda Fortress of Ivan the Terrible" is timed to coincide with this date. The film tells about one of the greatest buildings of the era of Ivan the Terrible - the Vologda fortress. Modern archaeological, historical, bibliographic and archival research answers many questions asked by local historians. Did the tsar plan to move the capital to Vologda? Why did Grozny stop construction and leave Vologda? Is his departure connected with the famous brick that fell from the arch of St. Sophia Cathedral? These and other questions will be answered by experts and authors of the film.

Also on the week of February 16, a thematic webinar "The Terrible Tsar Ivan Vasilievich" and a lecture "50 Years of Power: Ivan the Terrible", presented as part of the educational project of the Presidential Library’s video lecture Knowledge of Russia will be shown.

Thanks to the documentary of the Presidential Library “... My address is on the Moika, near the Konyushenny bridge...”, portal users will have an opportunity to visit the famous house on the Moika online, learn about the poet’s daily activities, his family, friends and about the last days life of a classic of Russian literature.

The video film of the Presidential Library "Foreign Words" in the poetry of Alexander Pushkin" is dedicated to foreign borrowings in the Russian language. Why did Tatyana write her letter in French, and what kind of "wild state" of the Russian language does Pushkin speak to Vyazemsky? How was the modern Russian language formed and what role did Pushkin play in this? Consonance with the current situation - an abundance of borrowings from the English language - makes this video interesting for everyone who is interested in the history of the Russian language and literature.

The documentary "In Search of the Lost “Mail”" will also be screened. A film version of Samuil Marshak's famous children's poem "The Mail" came out in 1929, arousing interest all over the world. Already in 1930, the artist and director Mikhail Tsekhanovsky released a new, voiced version of the Post, which became the first Soviet sound cartoon. By the end of the 1950s, this version is already considered lost. The plot of the film "In Search of the Lost “Mail”" was the search for the sound version of the cartoon. Film critics Nikolai Izvolov and Sergei Kapterev talk about the search for cinematographic works, about the investigation of their history, about people who devote their lives to film research, archivists, critics and museum workers.

From the video lectures that will be shown on the Presidential Library’s portal, it will be possible to learn unknown details of the foreign tour in Europe and the USA, made by Sergei Yesenin with Isadora Duncan; to find out who and why called the theatrical and artistic figure Sergei Diaghilev "a crusader of beauty"; to unravel the mysteries of the fate of the brilliant Matilda Kshesinskaya and even... to learn about the first Soviet comics.

Especially for students, a number of video lectures will be available on the Presidential Library’s portal, the topics of which reveal and enter the school curriculum - “Russian Law in the era of Vladimir Monomakh”, “Vladimir Monomakh” (for 6th grade students), “How the Russian people overcame the Time of Troubles: marking 400 anniversary of the election of Mikhail Romanov" (Grade 7), "255 years of the beginning of the reign of Catherine II", "The Russian army in the reign of Catherine II" (Grade 8), "The Eastern question in the politics of Nicholas I", "Activities of Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin as chairman Council of Ministers”, “Law on the press of Alexander II” (grade 9). Lectures to the audience are traditionally given by authoritative specialists from scientific and educational institutions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia. The topics of speeches spotlight the main directions of the formation of the Presidential Library’s collections: the history of the Russian state and law, the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation.

Films and video lectures are broadcast on the Presidential Library’s portal in the TV Channel section. The broadcast schedule, which is updated weekly, is available here. Please note that the Live Broadcasts section provides the library's events with their program available.

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