How animals enhance the library experience From April 3 to April 15, Moscow will host the XVII international festival of hand-drawn stories “KomMissia”. The oldest comics festival in Russia will be located at several venues: at the Flakon Design Factory, at the Museum of Moscow and at the Russian State Library for Youth, which has been the organizer and headquarters of the festival since 2013. The ComMission program is very intense.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" According to the Bulgarian Commission, which is responsible for disclosing data on the work of citizens for intelligence services during the years of socialism, philosopher Yulia Kristeva collaborated with Bulgarian intelligence. According to published data, Kristeva became an agent of the First Main Directorate of the KGB, which was involved in foreign intelligence, in 1971. At that time she lived in France.

Scandalous book about the Patriotic War of 1812 The publicist Evgeny Ponasenkov (recognized as a foreign agent) released a book under the loud title “The First Scientific History of the War of 1812”. Gorky asked the candidate of historical sciences Lev Agronov, who defended his thesis in the historiography of the events of the Patriotic War, to analyze the book and evaluate the degree of declared science. Evgeny Ponasenkov. The first scientific history of the war of 1812.

Wisten Hugh Oden about good books, lazy students and critics-maniacs In 1956, the poet Wisten Hugh Oden was chosen by an honorary professor of poetry Oxford. At the inauguration ceremony, he gave a lecture to students of the university, the text of which later entered the book of his literary essay “The Hand of the Baby” entitled “Know, Be able, evaluate”. This essay opened the main building of the collection.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The opening of the exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth will take place on March 29. The exhibition will be on display in the exhibition hall of the reading room until April 14. “This exhibition is a presentation by contemporary artists and masters of decorative and applied arts about the time and life of noble and peasant houses, about people and their occupations, about I.S. himself. Turgenev.