8 December 2023

Webinar and roundtable “Rare and valuable books – summing up the results of the project of 2023 and planning the events for 2024”

December 5, 2023, on the PROCULTURE.RF portal the officials of the RSL "Rare and Valuable Books" project office together with the representatives of the libraries participating in the project reviewed the achieved in 2023. Statistics, impressions and plans for the future were all spoken out to the broad internet audiences. Watch our streams and get to know much more!

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6 December 2023

Lectures of the RSL Centre of Oriental Literature. "Basics of Japanese Aesthetics"

We are happy to offer you two new lectures of series "Basics of Japanese Aesthetics" by orientalist and expert in Japanese studies Natalia Diomkina. This time you are going to get acquainted with the two unlike but extremely popular trends of art of the Land of the rising sun.

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24 November 2023

Annual Caucus of Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia

28-29 November, in Moscow there was held the Annual Caucus of Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia. The theme of the sessions of 2023 was “Creating successful future for libraries in collaboration – developing branch projects, cooperation and integration, and exchanging best practices”. Videos are available.

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20 November 2023

Treasures of the Russian State Library. Albums by Maria Sibylla Merian and Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Join our video lectures. The last meeting will be devoted to the works of the two outstanding masters of etchings whose unique sketches were appreciated not only by art-lovers, but by the well-known scientists of those days.

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17 November 2023

New videos of the RSL Centre of Oriental Literature

The Centre of Oriental Literature of the Russian State Library continues publishing its videos devoted to the culture of Asia and Africa. Try out our new streams among which there are three lectures covering diverse aspects of the main theme of Arabian calligraphy and public talk about to Zambia, an African country we know so little about.

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