The Presidential Library summed up the Year of Dostoevsky

January 24, 2022 the Presidential Library hosted a Research and Practical Conference Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Modern Times. The event was held jointly with the Information and Methodological Center of the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg.

The Research and Practical conference Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Modern Times was a kind of summing up the results of the Year of Dostoevsky, which was announced in 2021 in connection with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the world famous classic. In accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia, a large-scale plan of anniversary events was implemented in our country.

The conference at the Presidential Library brought together connoisseurs of the work of one of the most widely read writers in the world: philologists, methodologists, teachers, students of educational institutions.

At the beginning of the event everyone was greeted by Deputy Director General of the Presidential Library Yaroslava Borozdina and Head of the Education Department of the Administration of the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg Olga Valetova.

Maria Chernyak, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Russian Literature of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia made presentations on the significance of the writer's works in the context of world culture; Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Philological Education of the St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Education of Teachers Sergey Fedorov; Ekaterina Kovina, Candidate of Philological Sciences, methodologist at the Dostoevsky Memorial Museum in St. Petersburg.

Deputy Director of Academic Gymnasium No. 56, teacher of Russian language and literature Olga Klishova spoke about her experience of studying Dostoevsky's work at school.

Elena Ivanova, director of the musical performance The Case of Lieutenant Karamazov, reported on her experience in staging an opera performance based on the novel The Brothers Karamazov; and a methodologist for information support of the Information and Methodological Center of the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg Andrey Galitsky.

The conference also included a screening of a video about the project Comprehension of Dostoevsky together and a video about an online marathon for reading the writer's works.

Students of educational institutions of the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg presented their research work to the event participants.

In 2021 a number of events dedicated to the anniversary of the world famous writer were held at the Presidential Library.

Thus, in February, within the framework of the Knowledge of Russia project, author’s cycle of 11 video lectures Fyodor Dostoevsky - Conversation about Values was launched by Dmitry Bogach, Candidate of Philology, Head of the Department of Digital Didactics of the Radio Engineering College of St. Petersburg.

In October, the Presidential Library held a cultural and educational event dedicated to the youth of Fyodor Dostoevsky - the premiere actiors’ reading of the play by the methodologist of the Information and Methodological Center of the Primorsky District Andrey Galitsky Now I will forever be silent about this. Dostoevsky in Revel.

Video recordings of speeches are available on the YouTube channel of the Presidential Library.

One can also learn more about the writer from the materials of the special digital collection of the Presidential Library Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881). It includes copies of the texts of the writer's works and materials about his life and career.