The Presidential Library’s cinema club showed "Voskresenie" film about the School of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

The Presidential Library’s cinema club meeting considered issues about upbringing and education in Orthodox traditions. The very ones that the School of Folk Art of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna followed from its inception, created for simple Russian girls mainly from peasant families.

At the beginning of the film, the background to the creation of such an unusual educational institution is revealed, and a model of the agricultural school of princess M. K. Tenisheva, is being considered, cultivating her pupils in the spirit of Orthodoxy, patriotism and morality. The topic of education as an integral part of Russian culture worried Russian autocrats. As a result, the highest approved project by the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was organized by the School of Folk Art; she was one of the institutions of the Imperial Female Patriotic Society. The birthday of the historical school is the day when the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna presented the school administration an icon of the Protection of the Mother of God embroidered with beads as a blessing to the School of Folk Art on November 13 (26).

Here girls from 29 provinces of Russia studied. The school has become a fundamentally new educational institution, designed to establish lost links between the glorious past and the present of folk art, between the capital of the Russian state and the most remote villages.

73 years after the closure, the School opened its doors again in the autumn of 1992 thanks to the efforts of the Foundation for the Revival of Traditional Culture (in memory of Princess M. K. Tenisheva).

In the summer the school moves to the village of Voskresenskoye. And here crafts and experience related to agricultural work flourish. In due course in Voskresenskoye it is planned to create a cultural center, the purpose of which is to support rural schools and the culture of the peoples of the North-West.