A new issue of the historical magazine “Rodina” was presented at the Presidential Library

May 17, 2018 the Presidential Library hosted the presentation of the May issue of the historical popular science magazine “Rodina”. The authors of the publication, representatives of the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", employees and guests of the libraries of Perm, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Stavropol, Ryazan, Kasimov, as well as the Military Equipment Museum "Battle Glory of the Urals" in Verkhnyaya Pyshma (the Sverdlovsk region) took part in the video conference.

The fifth issue this year was presented by the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief of “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” Igor Kots. The topic of the issue is "Native Speech", one of its central materials - a great interview with the doctor of philology, professor of the State Pushkin Institute of Russian language Galina Yakusheva. The reader will learn why the Russian language needs our protection and support.

A significant part of the magazine is devoted to the materials on the Great Patriotic War. The leading columnist of the historical journal, Doctor of Philosophy Semen Ekshtut devoted his research to the amazing fate of the little-known hero of the Motherland, General Maxim Purkaev, "who has talked with Hitler for 15 minutes and beat him in the war for two years". The publication "Combatant Nikolai Kostarev: I draw the fire upon myself!", tells about the feat of a ski battalion near the village of Leskino in the Smolensk region, the search detachment found his remains only 72 years later. The magazine also dispels the myths about Stalin's cruel measures against the military at the beginning of the war and publishes the diary of Nurse Lidia Noritsyna, thanks to which one can see the events of 1941-1945 with the eyes of a 17-year-old nurse.

From the materials of the May issue, the reader will also find out why Karl Marx hated Russia, what lines inspired Pushkin for a trip from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt, a march made 190 years ago, that the archpriest Avvakum, Emelyan Pugachev, Peter I, Alexander Suvorov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and themselves five more equally outstanding personalities, as Korney Chukovsky defended "Moidodyra" and many other interesting information about people, events, places.

Presentations of the latest issues of the historical popular science magazine “Rodina” in the Presidential Library have become traditional. They have been held monthly since April 2017 as part of a cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, which was signed at the end of 2016. Regular joint events such as multimedia exhibitions dedicated to the "Rodina", video lectures with the authors of the historical magazine take part in the Presidential Library. Digitized copies of the popular science edition are available on the portal of the Presidential Library.