The Presidential Library featured a new issue of “Rodina” magazine

А presentation of a new, September issue of the historical and popular science “Rodina” magazine was held on           September 7, 2017, in the Presidential Library. The publication authors, representatives of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper, staff employees and guests of the Ekaterinburg, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Simferopol, Perm libraries, as well as the students and teachers of the Kemerovo State University took part in videoconference.

“The geography of our magazine is gradually growing, — told Anzhelika Gurskaya, director of the Northwest branch of the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta.” — Recently we visited Kaliningrad, where we presented the exhibition of Rodina. In November, it will travel to the capital of the Arctic Circuit, Murmansk, where we will meet with local historians and talk about our publication.”

Military expert of “Rodina” magazine, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of the Moscow Architectural Institute Andrei Smirnov presented a fresh issue and announced the main theme of September: “Attitude toward the monuments and a memory.” It is dedicated to monuments erected on the territory of other states in honor of Soviet soldiers-liberators, but in our times often cruelly destroying.

From the material entitled “The Philosophical steam-boat,” prepared on the 100-year anniversary of the revolution of 1917, a reader will find out what Russia lost 95 years ago, sending out educated, talented “counterrevolutionaries” abroad, whose views diverged from the line of the new government. There were scientists, engineers, doctors, writers, economists, and the teachers among them, about whom L. D. Trotsky said: “We sent these people out, because there was not a reason to shoot them down, but was impossible to tolerate them.” Among them philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, writer and educator Valentin Bulgakov, an outstanding zoologist Mikhail Novikov, discoverer of star clouds Vsevolod Stratonov and many others. “Rodina” tells in detail what each of these people did before exile, in what reason they were deported, and how their destinies developed abroad.

Among the heroes of the new issue of “Rodina” magazine are also Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from a nuclear catastrophe in 1983, the famous captain of the legendary USSR ice hockey team Boris Mikhailov, the poet Gennady Shpalikov, the creator of the museum dedicated to the hero of the Crimean War, Vice Admiral Vladimir Kornilov Alexander Volnukhin and many others. In addition, the materials of the issue tell how the fate of the former tsarist officers, who joined the service in the Red Army turned out, why the Belarusian Smorgon town entered the history of the First World War, what was the festival culture of the townspeople of the Russian Empire at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century, what English meals gave stricken a root in our country and much more.

The presentations of the upcoming issues of the historical and popular science magazine “Rodina” in the Presidential Library have already become traditional. The event takes place every month from April 2017 within a cooperation agreement between the Presidential Library and the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper, which was signed at the end of 2016. The organizations held a number of joint events: in December 2016, a multimedia exhibition “The Year of the “Rodina” magazine 2016: historical events in people’s Stories” was opened in the building on Senate Square, in February 2017 public video lecturing with participation of the authors of the “Rodina” historical magazine dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the 1917-year revolution in Russia was held. The digitized copies of this popular science publication are also gradually adding to the electronic stock of the Presidential Library.