Penza pupils introduced to the Slavic Literature

In Penza, on May 23, 2019, the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture was celebrated at the Orthodox Book Festival. To this date, the staff of the Penza Regional Center of the Presidential Library arranged a series of quests "The ABC is not dullness, but a step towards science" for primary students of schools № 76 and № 68 and a video about the history of the development of Slavic literature.

The purpose of the quest was to obtain the key to the "secret room", where the facsimile edition of the alphabet of Ivan Fyodorov was hidden. To accomplish this task, participants were divided into teams. The Izhitsa team in the electronic reading room of the Presidential Library looked for clues to the cipher in the alphabets of various eras, the members of the Vedi team collected the puzzle The Book is the Key to Knowledge and deciphered it. After completing a few more tasks, the teams met on the “Living letter” exercises. Using imagination and sports skills, the guys creatively depicted letters, taking as an example the illustrated primer of Karion Istomin of the late 17th century.

Employees of the electronic reading room also showed schoolchildren the most ancient digitized monuments of Russian literature from the Presidential Library’s collections, the first printed alphabets, and samples of Slavic Cyrillic writing from the 10th to 17th centuries from E. F. Karsky.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection “Penza Region: Pages of History”. It includes archival documents, essays, studies and statistical materials covering demographic, geographical, socio-economic, socio-political and other aspects of the history of the region of the late 18th - first third of the 20th century. The current Charter of Penza Region is presented. 

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