Finalists of the festival “It all starts with childhood” showed their first works in the Presidential Library

The Presidential Library hosted the regular cinema club meeting, which was held as part of the II International Children's Crafts Festival, dedicated to the history of Russia in poetry and art song of the XX – XXI centuries. The festival is organized by the Alexander Gorodnitsky Foundation for the Development and Promotion of Poetry and Art Songs and the National Pushkin Museum.

According to the representative of the Alexander Gorodnitsky Foundation Elena Parshukova, the Presidential Library for the second time has been providing its site for the final competition of media projects created by gifted schoolchildren of the city. On behalf of Alexander Gorodnitsky, the representative of the Foundation handed over a disc with the recording of his latest film “Leningrad Metronome” to the Presidential Library - the first, most difficult siege winter, the future poet and bard spent in the besieged city.

The cinema club's program consisted of the screening and discussion of 15 works by children - the finalists of the festival’s media projects competition, many of whom were devoted to the 75th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege. The authors spoke about the design and implementation of their ideas on the history of Russia. The first grader of school № 323 Alyosha Oreshkov was the first to act as an actor, having confidently read a poem about the first siege winter in a video clip prepared by him called “Molchanov. It is ordered to survive!”, which is dedicated to the poet Nikolai Molchanov, “guard survivor of the siege”. A video on the topic “The History of Russia in the First Half of the 20th Century in the Works of Lydia Korneyevna and Korney Chukovsky,” was filmed by a second grader of the same school Vsevolod Shchursky. He disclosed in detail the history of the creation of Kornei Chukovsky’s military tale “Odoleyem Barmeleya”, which he read on the Presidential Library’s portal. A third-grader Maxim Avdoshin from the same school in St. Petersburg presented “Memories of Alexander Gorodnitsky”.

However, the pupils from other schools also had excellent work performed - thematically, compositionally, and aesthetically. With applause, the hall met the collective work of the school № 638 in Pavlovsk “A Tale about how Pavlov Grad began to be” to the poem by poetess Lyudmila Dmitriyeva: for the shooting of the film, the young heroes dressed in the costumes of the historical characters who participated in the bookmark of the Pavlovsk Palace and landscape park.

According to the Presidential Library’s cinema club meeting, the festival is designed to help educating the younger generation with a sense of patriotism, respect for the historical and cultural heritage of their homeland, the creation of conditions for active involvement in research and creative activities; identifying and supporting gifted children and creative youth.