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“Eagerly catching native speeches, words and rhetorical twists, he wrote them down ... How many times during hot conversation, snatching up a notebook, he managed to write down a speech or a word that someone escaped from his tongue - and no one heard him! There was no such a word in the dictionaries, and it was purely Russian”, - we read in the study of J. Groth “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language by V. I. Dahl” from the Presidential Library’s collections.

“The divine sign is vividly expressed in human genius, in their thoughts, speeches, and exploits: they stand so high above their contemporaries and are so little understood by them; they plan so far ahead, drawing new paths for the research and highlighting new horizons for posterity”, - Archpriest N. Bogolyubsky, professor of theology, said about Lomonosov marking the 200th anniversary of the scholar, widely celebrated in Russia more than a century ago.

In accordance with the order of the Governor, 2019 has been declared the Year of Pavel Bazhov in Sverdlovsk Region. The Belinsky Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Research Library has joined the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the birth of the writer and folklorist Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950).

A presentation of the Church Slavonic Language Today educational portal and a master class on how to use Church Slavonic language online resources were held in the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

February 5, 2019 marks the 430th anniversary of the establishment of the patriarchate in Russia. On this day in 1589, Metropolitan Job became the first patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, and the Russian Orthodox Church itself gained independence by withdrawing from submission to the See of Constantinople. The Presidential Library ‘s portal features a variety of digital copies of rare publications on the history of the patriarchate in our country.

February 7, 2019 marks 326 years since the birth of Empress Anna Ioannovna (1693-1740). The Presidential Library’s portal features extensive collection The House of Romanov. Zemsky Sobor of 1613, one of the parts of which is dedicated to Tsarina Anna Ioannovna, who ruled from 1730 to 1740.

On February 8, 2019 at 10:00 the Presidential Library will host the annual conference and webinar "Alexander Pushkin’s Memorial Day". Students and university professors, teachers and pupils of St. Petersburg schools, employees of the National Pushkin Museum will traditionally attend the event. Other institutions of culture and education of the regions of the Russian Federation will be also connected to event via video-conferencing mode.

The I Granin Readings took place in St. Petersburg. The event was attended by representatives of the Presidential Library, which Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin (1919–2017) has visited for many times as a friend.

The Russian State Library (Moscow) presents the exhibition “My Precious”. The display in the Rumyantsev Hall of the Manuscripts Department is dedicated to St. Seraphim of Sarov (1754/59—1833), one of the most revered saints in Rus’, the patron of Diveyevo Convent. The exhibition will be open until February 24, 2019.

On February 13, 2019 the Russian State Children’s Library (Moscow) is holding the All-Russian Video Conference “Together for a Better Internet: Children’s Libraries and their Partners”.

On February 15, 2019 the Staraya Ladoga Museum-Reserve (Leningrad Region) is launching an exhibition “A Casket of District Stories”, which is a joint project of the Novaya Ladoga Regional Historical Museum and the Staraya Ladoga Museum-Reserve. The exhibition will acquaint visitors with fates and everyday life of some women from Ladoga, who promoted culture and education. Among the characters of the exhibition are: M. I. Spirova, L. V. Lesnaya (Geshtovt), Ye. V. Andreyeva, P. M. Maslovskaya and other teachers.

November 2, 2018 marks 297 years since the day when Russia became the Empire and Tsar Peter I assumed the title Great. The history of this era - transformations, glorious victories and the formation of our country as a world power - is widely represented in rare materials from the Presidential Library’s collections.

Is it possible to preserve unique church relics over the centuries, how and why the need to create the first church museums emerged, how their fate evolved in different periods of our country's history, who were at the origin of this great and important undertaking - the visitors of the Presidential Library’s portal can answer these questions thanks to a new virtual tour of the exhibition “Keeping the Orthodox Faith: the history of church museums. Marking the 1030th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’”, which was opened in the historic building of the Synod from July 27 to September 20, 2018.

In the New building of the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg) the book-illustrative exhibition “If there were cities on Mars: Paper Architecture”, timed to the World City Day, celebrated annually on October 31, is launched.

January 12, 1772 Russian statesman, reformer, legislator Mikhail Speransky was born. The son of a priest in one of the rural parishes of Vladimir Province, through his abilities, deep moral roots, and hard work, was drawn by Emperor Alexander I to reform Russian law. In the collections of the Presidential Library “Mikhail Speransky (1772–1839)” he is represented as the author of the plan of liberal transformations, the initiator of the creation of the State Council and the head of the codification of the basic state laws of the Russian Empire.

The Izmailovo Exhibition Hall, Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve presents “Moscow in Artworks” – a display of cityscapes of Moscow by 4 artists: Eugeny Romashko, Andrey Dubov, Vera Lagutenkova and Lyudmila Charskaya. The exhibition of city landscape painting will be open through March, 17 2019.

The editorial office of tass.ru website and TASS Design Studio have teamed up with the State Tretyakov Gallery to launch a special project “Not Everyone will be Taken into the Future”. It is dedicated to the first large-scale retrospective exhibition of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s works held in Moscow. The highlight of the special project is a 360° video tour around the exhibition, led by Zelfira Tregulova, Director General of the Tretyakov Gallery. The project also features materials that were not included in Anton Zhelnov’s film-interview “Poor People. The Kabakovs”. They were provided to TASS by the Garage Museum.

Until February 19, 2015 at the Museum of Industry and Art in Ivanovo takes place the exhibition "World of Toys a Century Ago", which features rare toys and games, as well as books, school supplies, clothing and shoes of the XIX - early XX century from Russia, Germany, France, England and the United States from the collection of Tatiana Makeeva. 

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) presents the exhibition "Piero della Francesca and his contemporaries. The image of the Madonna in paintings of the era of Renaissance from museums of Italy".

December 5, 2014 in the halls of Sytny yard, located in the historical territory of Kolomenskoye (Moscow), opened to the public a large-scale exhibition project "Nevyansk Miracle", with which the Moscow State Museum-Reserve completes the Year of Culture in Russia.

December 1-3, 2014 in Ulyanovsk is held the National Festival of Historical Book “Property of Time”.  

In the year of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War Tula State Museum of Weapons jointly with the Union of Photographers of Russia presents the exhibition "Our Strength is Memory..." The

In Spain, at the Palace of Congresses of Granada was opened the XIII Congress of the International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRYAL) "The Russian language and literature in the space of world culture". It takes place from 13 to 20 September 2015.

On the eve of celebrating in 2015 of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of the A. E. Yekimtsev Stavropol Regional Children's Library presents a regional online project "Forever Alive: Stavropol remembers war", dedicated to the history of Stavropol region during the war.

January 20, 2014 the Omsk State Regional Scientific Library hosts the book-illustrative exhibition “There is a whole world in my soul”: to the 155th birth anniversary of A. P. Chekhov”.