Films and video lectures available on the Presidential Library’s TV Channel

The Presidential Library’s portal broadcasts films and video lectures prepared by the library, as well as video films by leading domestic film and TV studios. Their display is timed to memorable and significant dates as well as major events in the Presidential Library. Here are the most striking film screenings of the first half of April.

By April 16, which this year falls on the Bright Resurrection of Christ, the library’s portal will show a number of video materials related to the topic of Orthodoxy. Thus, thanks to the video recording of the informational and methodological webinar “Holy Places of Russia”, one can learn about guidebooks to churches and monasteries, descriptions of temples, lives of abbots, church periodicals, collections of the most revered icons and other materials placed in the electronic holdings of the Presidential Library. Also, as part of the webinar, Priest Alexander Tikhomirov tells about how a pilgrimage can affect a person's life.  

Documentary film "Christian way. Warriors of Christ” is dedicated to the Alan Holy Assumption Monastery, the highest (about 2,000 meters above sea level) Orthodox monastery in Russia, which is located in North Ossetia (Alania) in the village of Khidikus in the Kurtatinsky Gorge.

In turn, films about monasteries and cathedrals, shot by the specialists of the Presidential Library in Vologda, Novgorod Regions, Staraya Ladoga, tell about the salvation of the murals of ancient temples, their significance in the history of the country and the emergence of Russian statehood.

240 years ago, on April 19, 1783, Empress Catherine the Great signed the Manifesto on the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, the islands of Taman and Kuban to the Russian state. To coincide with this historical date, the Presidential Library’s portal broadcasts a film about one of the sights of the Crimean peninsula. The film “M. S. Vorontsov’s Memorial Library: what is hidden behind the spines of the books of the Vorontsov Palace” tells about a unique collection of books on history, geography, military affairs, agriculture, numerous dictionaries, reference books, encyclopedias and periodicals, which has been collected by more than one generation and has more than ten thousand volumes, as well as the cooperation of the Alupka Museum-Reserve with the Presidential Library in digitizing the unique book collections of the of M. S. Vorontsov Library.

On April 23, 1857 Alexander II approved the detailed description of the state emblem of the Russian Empire, which remained almost unchanged until 1917. The history of the formation of one of the main heraldic signs from the era of Ancient Rus' to modern Russia is spotlighted in the film "The Coat of Arms of Russia", the first part of the trilogy "State Symbols of Russia", filmed at the Lendok studio. In the genre of popular science films, the authors talk about the thousand-year history of Russia through the theme of heraldic continuity.

The theme of the creation and development of the state symbols of the country is continued by the video lecture "The State Emblem of Russia" by the Executive Secretary of the Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation Gleb Kalashnikov.

At the online video lectures on the Presidential Library’s portal, one has an opportunity to learn about the beginning of book printing in Russia, learn about the Naval Charter of Peter the Great and the military legislation of the time of Peter the Great, find out little-known facts about the life and career of Grand Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich, who headed the Imperial Russian Historical Society.

Especially for students, video lectures are available on the Presidential Library’s portal, the topics of which reveal and enter the school curriculum. The subject of the video lecture Knowledge of Russia reflects the main directions in the formation of the Presidential Library's collections: the history of the Russian state and law, the Russian language as the state language of the Russian Federation. Lectures to the audience are traditionally given by authoritative specialists from scientific and educational institutions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia.

Films and video lectures are broadcast on the Presidential Library’s portal in the TV Channel section. The broadcast schedule, which is updated weekly, is available here. Please note that the Live Broadcasts section provides the library's events with the program included.

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