The Presidential Library hosted the Cadet Day

The conference "The Cadet Day at the Presidential Library" was held on Senate Square, 3 on April 7, 2022.

This year the Cadet Day marks the 210th anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 and is intended to highlight the most important historical events of that time and their reflection in the epic novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy.

The event focused on the collective awards of the Russian army of the era of the Napoleonic wars, about French prisoners of war in Russia and about the attitude of Napoleon's army towards Russian prisoners of war, about the coverage of the Patriotic War of 1812 in historical science and in the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy and much more.

Representatives of the Borodino Field Museum-Reserve, the St. Petersburg State University, the N. G. Chernyshevsky Saratov National Research State University, the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg Cadet Corps "Boarding School of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation", the editors of the Rodina magazine spoke at the conference.

Pupils of the Nakhimov Naval School, Admiral D. N. Senyavin Marine Technical College, St. Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, as well as Suvorov military schools and cadet corps attended the conference.

The event is available on the institution's YouTube channel.