It is almost impossible to live in Moscow and never come across RSL (we are no longer talking about getting a reader ticket). Since he moved from the northern capital, Leninca has officially become one of the main attraction centers of Moscow. Woland said goodbye to the city in the novel “Master and Margarita, and Lyudmila was looking for her husband from Lyudmila“ Moscow Not Believs ”.
Meanwhile, just cinema and literature did not make it popular. So far, the library archives include rare book copies like the Bible in the first half of the 1450s by Johann Gutenberg, and the gospel of 1425’s Khitrovo and the miniatures of Andrei Rubev.
He doesn’t agree that RSL is a private and unique place and that his employees cannot say it better. So we transfer the word to them.
What is the most interesting or unexpected historical truth about RSB?
Lennka had summer branches in Gorky Park and Sokolnicheskaya Park – with pleasure, he would come there to work in the season now.
Is it a favorite place for you in RSL?
Belveder House Pashkov and terrible Ivan well.
Are there many young people among your colleagues? What attracts young experts to the library?
Young people are getting more and more. It is active, creative, ambitious who believes in the RSL mission and breaks the cliché of the librarian. I think they are interested in creating history and being involved in something really important.
What do you like most in your business?
Categorically I don’t know how to sit on the computer all day. The specificity of my work allows me to visit the reading rooms of the main building within a day, to listen to the rehearsal of an organ concert, to spend a minute in the silence of Peshikov’s house’s ballroom lounge, and to go to the center of Eastern literature throughout Mokhova. Dream!
What is the reaction of people when they hear that you work in the library?
In addition to the uninterrupted reading of the books, they are interested in what I can do there. In general, they usually say that it is a place where they always represent me.
What precautions do you recommend to visit RSL?
One night tour of the main building and the main activity of the year – “Bibline”.
Classic or modern literature?
Classics and modern literature.
Which books should everyone read?
“Bozlu Kurt”, “Little Life” and the whole of Potterian.
What is the most interesting or unexpected historical truth about RSB?
I was very surprised by the fact that Lennka was not actually “Leninca .. St. It was a collection of Count Rumyantsev, which was moved from St. Petersburg and was actually from the first public museum in Moscow. And only at that time, after the revolution and education of the USSR, the former Rumyantsev Museum became the main library of the country.
Is it a favorite place for you in RSL?
Of course, the local center of oriental literature. This is the most comfortable place you feel very harmonious and peaceful. And everything is saturated with the spirit of Asia and African: from the unusual books and paintings to the goddess Durghi statues and printed cars in the eastern languages.
Are there many young people among your colleagues? What attracts young experts to the library?
Our department will definitely break the cliché about a typical librarian: We have half of the employees under 40 years of age. And older and more experienced, very open and social ones live an active social and cultural life, dress very stylish and are aware of all trends and new trends.
I think young employees are largely influenced by the idea of working as a source of information and a work of art.
What do you like most in your business?
Our mission inspires me, gives visitors and readers the opportunity to learn something new about the world, and shares unique information to the world to speakers, scientists and researchers.
What is the reaction of people when they hear that you work in the library?
Many of them say diplomatic: “The real thing is that you love …”. And I really like it!
What precautions do you recommend to visit RSL?
It is difficult for me to answer the question, because I am dealing with events that are the center of oriental literature in one of the departments. I will not be humble and I will not recommend coming to us somehow: Our partners and common organizers are really trying to have high quality exhibitions and conferences about the East.
Classic or modern literature?
And this and this and preferably with a beautiful design and drawings!
Which books should everyone read?
Tales of the peoples of the world. And the wider the geography is, the better. I think folklore makes it possible to understand that we are all completely different and that it is also very similar in many ways.
What is the most interesting or unexpected historical truth about RSB?
I think of a very unusual history of competition to choose the best project of the library. As the results of the open and closed competition, the competition of Moscow and Leningrad Architects and as a result, the initial criticized project was selected.
Is it a favorite place for you in RSL?
The marble hall is always light, too much space and somehow festive. And of course, you feel a book deposits, on the contrary, the dark, mysterious and surrounding information concentration.
Are there many young people among your colleagues? What attracts young experts to the library?
It seems to me that youth is about 40%. Many are drawn by the potential of the library as a historical place: location, historical, crazy books, traditional values.
What do you like most in your business?
To see how the area was transformed and how beautiful it has become after the repair business. Find the evidence of construction history: drawings, photographs, hidden designs, several parks layer and drawing, devices no longer operated and old engineering communication.
What is the reaction of people when they hear that you work in the library?
I have a construction training, so not everyone is not in a construction organization, but I’m very surprised to work in the library. At first, my friends thought that I was working as a joke librarian, I went with a group in my hair and grumbled for readers. But it’s a cliché.
What precautions do you recommend to visit RSL?
All trips, film screenings and always “source”. This is an opportunity to stay in the library in a non -standard atmosphere and to feel the magic of this place.
Classic or modern literature?
Classical! Like classical music, it configures, makes it harmonious, gives information about time, suggests and teachs the foundations.
Which books should everyone read?
The list that I strive myself is a worldwide literature library. 200 volume prose and poetry, always classic! Right, the ancient world is hard for me.
What is the most interesting or unexpected historical truth about RSB?
Apart from that, we hid the ashes of Rubakin, then the fact that our collections are on the basis of the powers of the biggest museums for proud.
Is it a favorite place for you in RSL?
The courtyard of Pashkov’s house in summer.
Are there many young people among your colleagues? What attracts young experts to the library?
Fields and events.
What do you like most in your business?
People, even the worst and harmful.
What is the reaction of people when they hear that you work in the library?
“Seriously?”, “Do you read so much?”
What precautions do you recommend to visit RSL?
All very beautiful. To each.
Classic or modern literature?
Good literature.
Which books should everyone read?
There are books that I really love from the latter: “Segun”, “Running the wind”, but not the fact that everyone should read them.
What is the most interesting or unexpected historical truth about RSB?
It is difficult to say that all the facts are interesting, but the most unusual historical truth is that Leninca’s environments once took the measurement of blood cells and adapted to count the publications transferred to library funds.
Is it a favorite place for you in RSL?
The buffet of Rotonda and Pashkov’s house.
Are there many young people among your colleagues? What attracts young experts to the library?
There are many young people who attract me to answer.
What do you like most in your business?
Open something new.
What is the reaction of people when they hear that you work in the library?
Everyone has a different but more surprise.
What precautions do you recommend to visit RSL?
Exhibitions and trips.
Classic or modern literature?
I find it difficult to answer.
Which books should everyone read?
To each.
Source: People Talk
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