The forest is full of secrets and con­tra­dic­tions. Rus­sian forest and it’s image in numer­ous clas­sical art­works has been a part of national cul­tural DNA for centuries.

The Rus­sian State lib­rary was foun­ded in 1862, as Moscow’s first free pub­lic lib­rary named The Lib­rary of the Moscow Pub­lic Museum. In 2013 the lib­rary cel­eb­rates 150 years of history.