The Chelyabinsk Library hosted event dedicated to Catherine the Great

Employees of the Chelyabinsk Regional Center of the Presidential Library operating on the basis of the Chelyabinsk Regional Universal Research Library, within the framework of the project “Learning is Interesting”, prepared and held for pupils of Lyceum №97 a comprehensive event “About the Romanov Dynasty” dedicated to Catherine II’s 290th anniversary.

Initially, pupils were introduced to the Presidential Library’s resource, including the Gosudarika information and educational project.

As part of the event, participants studied the materials of the electronic collection “The Romanov Dynasty. The 400th anniversary of the Zemsky Sobor of 1613”, and saw one of three documentary films about the German princesses who became Russian empresses “German Princesses - Russian Fates ...”. The storyline features the very first German princess, whom Empress Yelizaveta Petrovna chose to wed her nephew Peter III, and who went down in history as Catherine II the Great.

Then the guys took part in a historical quiz in the form of the TV project “Svoya Igra”, where participants answered questions about the time of the reign of the representatives of the Romanov dynasty. The game was divided into four blocks: "First Romanovs", "Peter the Great", "Women's rule", "Romanovs in illustrations". The pupils showed deep knowledge of the history of the Russian state and the last imperial dynasty, and at the end of the event pupils received memorable gifts.

On the website of the Presidential Library the region is represented by “Chelyabinsk Region: Pages of History” collection. It includes digital copies of studies, essays, archival documents, statistical materials, photographs and sound recordings covering geographical, demographic, socio-economic, socio-political and other aspects of the history of the region, mainly the first third of the XX century.

Based on materials of http://chelreglib.ru/ru/.