March 22, Sunday, 12:00 "How People Wrote in Old Times" A class with a creative assignment for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. In the class, children will learn about the history of writing and writing implements, and find out how parchment, a wax tablet and birch bark were used for writing in ancient times. Each participant will be able to test whether it is difficult to write with a dip pen and discover the secret of the "pounce box", the paperweight and non-spill inkwells. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/6ED1D8E57C803C66FA59231C0B71DF2FD00AEBA9/2026-03-22/12:00
April 1, Wednesday, 16:00 "Where Filipok Studied" A class with a creative assignment for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. We invite children to follow the hero of Leo Tolstoy's story to an old 19th-century village school. There they will learn what and how peasant children were taught, and attend lessons in Russian literature and arithmetic. We will also discuss why the path to knowledge is not always easy. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/6ED1D8E57C803C66FA59231C0B71DF2FD00AEBA9/2026-04-01/16:00
April 5, Sunday, 12:00 "The Republic of SHKID" A class for family audiences with children aged 12 and up. The beginning of the 20th century was turbulent and unsettled: empires fell, wars and revolutions raged, and on the ruins of the "old world" remained thousands of hungry, orphaned children. The new workers' and peasants' state believed in the future and took responsibility for the homeless. The challenge of the times was taken up by wise educators and their pupils—teenagers who chose work and education to "make something of themselves." We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of revolutionary Petrograd–Leningrad in the mid-1920s, an era when, amid poverty and ruin, hunger and cold, the future Soviet labor school was being born. The story of one such school was described in the well-known autobiographical novel by G. Belykh and L. Panteleyev, "The Republic of SHKID." Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/5423ACAD429E156381CB597A66B8307E10E4B8D5/2026-04-05/12:00 Tickets can only be purchased online on the museum's official website. Inquiries by phone: (812) 600-20-00.
April 4, Saturday, 12:00 "Where Have You Seen or Heard That?" A class for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. Our museum houses many strange items that were in every home just yesterday. Today their names are forgotten or sound like foreign words: reproducer (record player), pen cleaner, blotting paper. How can we find out what these things are? We will be helped by the characters from the stories of Nikolai Nosov and Viktor Dragunsky—tireless seekers and fantasists. They will teach us how to play telephone (the broken telephone game) and use Morse code. Following Mishka and Deniska, we will go to school and check whether it is difficult to write with a dip pen without ink blots and smudges. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/5423ACAD429E156381CB597A66B8307E10E4B8D5/2026-04-04/12:00
April 3, Friday, 16:00 "Dolls of the Big Country" A class for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. By looking at dolls and children's toys of the past century, you can see how the world of childhood changed over a hundred years. Fancy ladies made of fabric and porcelain are replaced by mischievous little boys and plastic dolls. Alongside characters from children's tales, shelves begin to feature space explorers, athletes and even schoolchildren. What did girls and boys used to play with? Can toys teach anything, or do they only entertain? How can dolls be used to teach children to work and introduce them to different professions? Is it possible to find toys in a museum for adults? We'll search, examine, play and discuss! We will be aided by well-known poems by Soviet poets A. Barto, S. Marshak, M. Druzhinina and others. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/5423ACAD429E156381CB597A66B8307E10E4B8D5/2026-04-03/16:00
April 2, Thursday, 16:00 "Murzilka and All-All-All" A class for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. The Children's Historical Museum preserves rare issues of books and magazines from the past century, behind whose covers lie amazing stories. We have a unique opportunity to leaf through children's magazines, get acquainted with the era when they were published, and imagine the young readers of that time—their interests and hobbies. In the class "Murzilka and All-All-All!" you will learn about the history of famous children's subscription publications such as "Murzilka", "Sverchok", "Yozh" and "Chizh". You will try your hand at solving puzzles, brainteasers, charades and other tasks published on the pages of these magazines. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/5423ACAD429E156381CB597A66B8307E10E4B8D5/2026-04-02/16:00
March 29, Sunday, 12:00 "At the Old Gymnasium" A class with a creative assignment for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. The transformation of the Russian Empire by Alexander II could not have been accomplished without educational reform. Contemporary schoolchildren will visit a 19th-century gymnasium, learn its timetable and traditions. The setting of an old classroom, visual aids and students' supplies will give an idea of what Russian gymnasium students were taught and how they were prepared to serve the Fatherland. Together we will recall the story of the gymnasium student Tyoma Kartashov, as described in the novel by Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky. We invite young visitors to try their hand at penmanship with a dip pen and ink. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/6ED1D8E57C803C66FA59231C0B71DF2FD00AEBA9/2026-03-29/12:00
March 28, Saturday, 13:30 "Gorky the Storyteller" A class for family audiences with children aged 7 and up. For Gorky's birthday. The childhood and youth of Maxim Gorky cannot be called carefree. However, this did not prevent him from later becoming a talented and well-known Soviet writer. The Children's Historical Museum invites you to an unusual literature lesson. Instead of textbooks—children's magazines and books of the past century; instead of a test— a quiz. We will talk about what helped the writer overcome life's difficulties and what the storyteller Gorky dreamed about. Tickets: https://polithistory.tn-cloud.ru/event/5423ACAD429E156381CB597A66B8307E10E4B8D5/2026-03-28/13:30
