The Arkhangelsk region was the first to take part in the “living chronicle” competition. Living chronicle of the fate of a family in the history of the country Living chronicle of the fate of a family in the history of the country

On October 26, the pilot stage of the literary competition “Living Chronicle. The fate of the family in the history of the country."

For six months, schoolchildren in the Arkhangelsk region prepared books about the history of their own families for publication. More than 100 schools in the Arkhangelsk region participated in the competition, and more than 350 texts were uploaded to the Ridero publishing system. Many of the works submitted to the competition by authors aged 12 to 17 turned out to be genuine literature.

Thanks to the support of the regional government, Pomorie schools will continue to participate in the project next year. In his greeting to the competition laureates, Governor I.A. Orlov noted: “ Often the history of our Motherland is presented to a child during lessons in the form of dry textbook texts; studying it involves memorizing important numbers and dates. Such information is difficult to perceive on a personal level. The competition provided an opportunity to create a “living history” based on personal and family memories. Connect the history of several generations of your family with the history of our country and our region. It really turned out to be a living story!»

All texts written by young authors can be readon the “Living Chronicle” page in Ridero . Teams from entire schools participated in the project. Participants uploaded their finished works to the Ridero publishing service. A popular vote took place on the Living Chronicle books page - thousands of users voted for their favorite works. Together with them, the works of young authors were evaluated by a qualified jury. Jury member Alisa Grebenshchikova flew to Arkhangelsk specifically to announce the winners and congratulate the laureates. " People who are able to tell about the history of their own family were important hundreds of years ago - and today everyone loves them too, and in a hundred years they will be remembered».

This year's winners:

3rd place - collection "Family Stories" Municipal Educational Institution Gymnasium of Novodvinsk (teacher Elena Ivanovna Boykova)

2nd place - collection “Living Chronicle” in two volumes of MBOU Lyceum No. 17 of Severodvinsk (teachers Nadezhda Valerievna Pervyshina and Yana Yurievna Kasatkina)

1 place - "Pomeranian root..." MBOU Secondary School No. 4 in Onega (teacher Nadezhda Vladimirovna Boldyreva)

More detailed information about the competition on the Ridero websitehttps://ridero.ru/contest/letopis/

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1 REGULATIONS ABOUT THE CREATIVE WORK COMPETITION “LIVING CHRONICLE” 2017 1. TERMS 1. The competition is a competitive event for schoolchildren to create individual and collective Creative works on the topic “The Fate of the Family in the History of the Country.” 2. School is a municipal institution of general and additional education. 3. The teacher is a representative of the School, coordinating participants at all stages of the competition. 4. Participant is a student of the School, a representative of grades 6-11, who created a creative work within the framework and in accordance with the rules of the Competition. 5. Creative work - an author’s text obtained as a result of the Participant’s creative work, presented in prose or poetic form. 6. The book is a collection of creative works written by the competition participants. 7. Organizers - organizations and government bodies involved in the preparation and conduct of the Competition Non-profit organization “Institute of Books, Promotion of Reading and Promotion of the Development of New Technologies for Information Transmission” (OGRN, Taxpayer Identification Number, address) 7.2. Intellectual publishing system Ridero Limited Liability Company "Publishing Solutions" (OGRN, INN, KPP, Ekaterinburg, Shartashskaya St., 19, room 309, correspondence address: , Ekaterinburg, PO Box 313) Government of the Arkhangelsk region. 8. Organizing Committee - a body specially created for the purposes of holding the Competition, accountable and controlled by the Organizers of the Competition, formed from journalists, cultural and artistic figures, public figures, teachers and teaching staff, representatives of the Organizers. 9. Jury - a group of specialists specially attracted for the purposes of the competition, empowered to decide on the selection of winners and the awarding of awards. 10. Chairman of the Jury - the person heading the Competition Jury, selected from the Jury. 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS 2.1. The “Living Chronicle” competition (hereinafter referred to as the Competition) is a competitive event for participants to create individual and collective creative work on the topic “The Fate of the Family in the History of the Country.” Pupils of grades 6-11 of municipal institutions of general and additional education can take part in the Competition. The competition is held among students of schools, located in the Arkhangelsk region of the Russian Federation.

2 2.4. Participation in the Competition is free. Collection of organizational and other fees from participants of the Competition is unacceptable. As part of the Competition, each participant is invited to create a creative work on the topic “The fate of the family in the history of the country” (hereinafter referred to as the “Creative Work”), including: collecting information about the life of his family; write a creative work in prose or poetic form; 2.6. The participant can supplement the Creative work with visual materials: illustrations in the form of photographs or images, the presence of visual materials is an additional condition that is not mandatory for participation. A group of schoolchildren can work together on one Creative work. Creative works are compiled into a Book and submitted to the competition by participants, with the assistance of schools. . When submitting a Book to the competition, participants or a teacher indicate the information necessary for the Organizing Committee, including: what school the Book represents, the name of the responsible teacher, etc. The minimum number of Books submitted to the Competition from a School is 1 Book The number of Creative works in one Book is from 5 to 8. The volume of text of one Creative work should not exceed characters, including spaces. The number of compilers of one Book is from 1 to 8 participants. The volume of the book's text should not exceed characters, including spaces (at the rate of characters in one work for the maximum number of works in the book 8). 3. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT 3.1. Finding and supporting talented children Introducing schoolchildren to the history of Russia in the 20th century Patriotic education of youth Drawing the attention of schoolchildren to modern Russian and foreign literature dedicated to the history of Russia in the 20th century Developing creative writing skills in schoolchildren: searching for topics, summarizing information, writing texts Strengthening family ties of children Introducing schoolchildren to the capabilities of modern libraries, improving computer literacy. 4. COMPETITION ORGANIZERS AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 4.1. The competition is ensured and carried out by the Organizers of the Competition. The operational management of the Competition is carried out by the Organizing Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Organizing Committee), accountable and controlled by the Organizers of the Competition, formed from representatives of the Organizers, journalists, cultural and artistic figures, public figures, teachers and teaching staff, representatives of the Arkhangelsk region. The Organizing Committee approves Jury of the Competition. The Jury includes writers, journalists, public figures, cultural and artistic figures, and teachers of the Arkhangelsk region. The Jury consists of no less than three and no more than seven Jury members. The Competition Jury is headed by a Chairman, elected from the Jury.

3 4.4. The organizer places the coordinates of the Organizing Committee, as well as all legal information related to the competition on the official page of the Competition 5. RULES OF THE COMPETITION 5.1. The competition is held for all municipal institutions of general and additional education (Schools) of the Arkhangelsk region The competition is held for all participants who meet the requirements set out in Section 1 of the Rules, without pre-selection During the competition, the participant creates a Creative work on the topic “The fate of the family in the history of the country” When preparing a Creative Work, the Competition participants have the right to use a questionnaire for interviewing family members proposed by the Organizer (see Appendix 1). The Competition Participants unite into teams and form a single literary work from their own Creative Works - a Book. The Competition Participants or the Teacher submit an application for the Competition by uploading the Book to Competition page on the Internet. When downloading the Book, all authors (participants) are indicated, and it is also indicated which representatives of the school prepared the Book. Participants in the Competition guarantee that the Creative Works created by them are newly created copyrighted texts, free from any rights and claims of third parties. The organizers are not responsible for copyright violations committed by participants. By accepting the terms of the Competition, participants thereby give their consent to the non-commercial use of Creative Works under the terms of a free, non-exclusive license for the duration of the Competition, including the publication of Creative Works. The Participant has the right to use excerpts from other literary works, which must be formatted as epigraphs or quotes , with the obligatory indication of the authorship of the quotation. Plagiarism in any form is not allowed, as well as quotations that are not properly formatted. If the rules of participation in the Competition are violated, by decision of the Organizing Committee, the Book may be removed from participation in the competition, and participants who are the authors of the Book may be denied further participation in the Competition Organizers The Competition has the right to make changes to the rules of the Competition in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation. 6. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE COMPETITION 6.1. A prerequisite for participation in the competition is registration on the official page of the competition. Applications for participation can only be submitted through the official page of the Competition. To receive up-to-date information about the progress of the Competition, participants have the right to subscribe to the newsletter of official information about the Competition on page 7. REGULATIONS FOR CONDUCTING STAGES OF THE COMPETITION

4 7.1. Preparation for the Competition begins on April 10, 2017 and includes organizing seminars, orientation meetings, holding webinars on the website, distributing recommended questionnaires for schoolchildren, as well as detailed instructions for registering and uploading works. As part of the first stage of the Competition, participants create Creative works on the topic "The fate of the family in the history of the country." At this stage, the Participants of the Competition also combine Creative works into a Book and prepare the Books for uploading to the page Duration of the first stage: from April 10, 2017 (00:01 Moscow time) to September 6, 2017 (23:59 Moscow time) As part of the second stage, the Book is uploaded to the page. Duration of the second stage: from August 14, 2017 (00:01 Moscow time) to September 18, 2017 (23:59 Moscow time) As part of the third stage, reader voting takes place. Duration of the third stage: From September 20, 2017 (00:01 Moscow time) to October 5, 2017 (23:59 Moscow time) Voting is carried out by online voting on the Internet page located at: Voting participants can become any site visitor who has logged in using one of the proposed methods. One authorized user can cast no more than one vote for each of the books he likes during the entire period of the reader voting. Venue of the third stage of the competition In case of detection of any actions that violate the rules of the Competition, as well as in the detection of the use of scripts, programs, or cheating of votes during voting , other dishonest actions and abuses, the Organizer has the right not to take such votes into account, as well as exclude the work from the Competition without any warning. Based on the results of the reader voting, the Organizing Committee identifies the Book with the most votes. Participants who submit a Book that wins the reader's vote to the Competition are awarded prizes. The winner of the reader's vote. Based on the results of the reader's vote, the Organizing Committee identifies the School, all of whose Books received the greatest number of votes in total. The representative of the School, as well as the School itself, are awarded commemorative diplomas provided by the Organizing Committee. The fourth stage is the work of the jury. Venue of this stage page Duration: from September 7, 2017 (00:01 Moscow time) to October 8, 2017 (23:59 Moscow time) The winners are selected by the jury based on their own subjective assessment according to the criteria specified in paragraph hereof Regulations The selection of winners is carried out on the basis of reading and evaluating all Books submitted to the Competition. The jury selects the winners and will be awarded no later than October 26, 2017.

5 7.14. Information about the results of the competition, the winners, as well as the time and place of awarding the winners will be published on the page no later than October 26, 2017 (23:59 Moscow time). The stages of the competition are held sequentially, within the time limits specified in these Regulations. 8. CRITERIA FOR WORK EVALUATION 8.1 Works are evaluated by the jury according to the following criteria: originality of concept, creative idea and its execution; literacy, imagery of the text; the ability to have an aesthetic, intellectual and emotional impact on the reader; working with sources; general design of the Book. 9. NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS 9.1. Each participant of the Competition receives a certificate of participation. Each representative of the School, who supervises the preparation of participants’ works for the Competition, receives a Gratitude. Participants whose Books are among the 50 best books receive additional Gratitude from the shortlist participants. Three Books assessed by the Jury as the best, which Places from first to third are awarded. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash. 10. FINANCING OF THE COMPETITION Financing of the general coordination of the Competition is carried out at the expense of the Government of the Arkhangelsk Region and attracted sponsors. 11. PROCEDURE FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA OF PARTICIPANTS The fact that the Participant performs the actions established by these Rules is the Participant’s consent, of his own free will and in his own interest, to the processing of personal data by the Organizer in strict accordance with the purposes established by these Rules The purpose of processing personal data is to conduct the Competition in accordance with these Rules The rules and current legislation of the Russian Federation The list of personal data that is provided by the Participant and processed by the Organizer is established and limited by these Rules The list of actions with personal data provided by Participants: collection, recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, changing), extraction, use, transfer (distribution, provision, access), depersonalization, blocking, deletion, destruction of personal data. The Organizer processes personal data of Participants in strict accordance with the principles and rules established by the Federal

6 of the Federal Law “On Personal Data”, including maintaining confidentiality and ensuring the security of personal data during their processing, including the protection requirements established by Art. 19 of the said Federal Law, the Organizer processes personal data during the period of the Competition. The Participant has the right at any time to revoke permission to process personal data by sending a written application by Russian Post in a valuable letter with a list of the attachment to the Organizer's postal address, which entails automatic termination of participation in the Competition of the person who revoked consent to the processing of your personal data.

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To make your book real, you should talk to your parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, and older friends. During the conversation, you will definitely have your own questions - ask them too!

1. Where are your family members from? From the Arkhangelsk region or migrants? What made them go to new places? And those who did not move anywhere - what and how changed in their lives?
2. What did your relatives do and where did they work 15-30-50 years ago? What happened to your ancestors 100 years ago? How far back can you trace your family history?
3. Who in your family are they telling stories about? Who is remembered most often? Why?
4. What family traditions do you have? Are there any historical dates or events that are especially important to your family? Why?
5. What item in your home reminds you of your family history? These could be old books or jewelry, pieces of furniture, awards or handmade items, photographs or paintings. It could even be Grandpa's motorcycle or a barn built in the last century!
6. What hobby did your family members have 15-30-50 years ago? How many of their contemporaries shared these hobbies with them? Do you have photos or things related to these activities?
7. Do you have memories in your family related to theater or painting, beautiful handmade things, trips to a museum, or anything else noticeable in the cultural life of Arkhangelsk and the region?
8. Have you traveled with your family around the Arkhangelsk region? What do you remember about these travels?
9. What is a traditional holiday dish in your family and where did this tradition come from?

Perhaps you will be interested, together with representatives of the older generation, in drawing up a family tree of your family, marking on it who was born when, what they did, were interested in how they lived their lives. Just draw on the largest piece of paper, marking everyone you can remember on it.

Of course, some of the things listed above will be more interesting to talk about than others, and some important topics are not mentioned here at all. You don’t have to include all of them in your work; it would be very cool to come up with your own. What makes a writer, journalist, chronicler different from a soulless automaton is that they search for and describe their own stories.
Books by different authors may be completely different from each other: one person will write a detailed historical commentary on grandma’s pie recipe, another will write an investigation about dents on a bicycle frame, a third will write a story of three generations, and a fourth will write a poem about one day. This is fine! The more original your essay, the more readers will be captivated by your family history.

The pilot stage of the literary competition “Living Chronicle. The fate of the family in the history of the country" - ​for six months, schoolchildren in the Arkhangelsk region researched the stories of their families, and then wrote books about them. Competition coordinator Alexander Gavrilov talks about how young authors managed to combine literature and history, find their own intonation, stretch the thread of the historical narrative back several generations, and how the chronicle of one region can help heal the traumas of an entire country.

When we conceived the “Living Chronicle” (this honor personally belongs to Alexander Krasnokutsky, who heads the publishing startup Ridero), we, of course, were afraid of insincerity. Each of us went through high school. All of us at school had the experience of secrecy, the experience of not expressing ourselves. The teacher says: “Now write an essay on the topic “We look up to those who are ahead of time” - ​and the teenager understands that even if he has some ideas, he does not want to express his own, because he needs to reproduce someone else’s.

And we wanted people to talk about the true history of their families, not smoothed over, not embellished - ​as they tell it at home, and not as they tell it to government officials. I think it was a success.

From the collection “Good Memory”

I read more than 40 books of the chronicle, each book contained from one to seven texts. Over these forty books, I’m embarrassed to admit, I burst into tears a hundred times. It’s not that I’m calling for measuring the quality of literature in sobs. And the tears welled up not so much from horror and hopelessness, but from something exactly the opposite. For example, on the strength and honesty of memory.

Here, for example, is Ksenia Bileva, whose work is cited above. She talks about how those dispossessed in the Russian North were simply transferred from one village to another, taking away their livestock, house, yard, and farmstead. And at the same time, she notices that next door there was a field where dispossessed people from Ukraine were brought. And so all autumn they went to the village to ask for a shovel, so that they could at least dig some dugouts for themselves. The fact that elders tell a child or schoolchild about this, that this detail is kept through at least three generations in family tradition, is a very strong and striking feature. We see this whole picture - ​strangers who were brought to a completely unfamiliar place. A village in which half of the people were taken to an unknown location, and the other was brought from an unknown location. And a shovel, which you need to go get every day and then you need to give it away, because there is only one on the farm, and it is needed. And people remember this three or four generations later and tell it again and again.

But one more thing is important: schoolchildren manage to tell about history differently than we are used to hearing. They say: “There were very difficult years. I had to cope with them - ​go to work on a timber rafting operation, work knee-deep in water, hide from inspectors. And my family survived."

It is precisely this “both funny and scary” that forms the amazing charm of these stories. It's not about how hard life was. And about how we overcame this unbearably difficult life. And each of the authors of these works is living evidence that the people had more strength than the power that tried to destroy the family. These are triumphant stories of survival as victory.

The hero of one of the works is a parish priest who served in three churches at the same time. He was arrested allegedly because in his sermon he called not to go to the collective farm. He was arrested, exiled, and died almost immediately. But pay attention to how the young author writes about this. He says that at home there was a conversation about this story after he watched a production of Boris Vasiliev’s story “Tomorrow there was a war.” As we remember, the father of the young heroine was also repressed and then returned. The young author, with the charming, radiant arrogance of a young winner, writes about it this way:

The chronicle turned out to be much wider than a single area. In the 20s, there was an exodus from the villages to the factories, many came to the cities from some remote corners, and now their heirs live in the cities of the Arkhangelsk region, many people came. There are wonderful stories of multinational families, where, for example, the father, a policeman, participated in all the post-Soviet Caucasian wars, and now serves in the traffic police and guards the peace of his country on the roads. This type of pride in one’s country is also understandable to me. But when you read the texts of the heirs of the Pomor families, they sound special.

I noticed one detail - children often refer to their ancestors with a full, expanded title: last name, first name, patronymic. “When my great-great-grandfather Prokopiy Stepanovich Ladkin...” At first it seems like some kind of official stuff, but then you see: the young authors also call themselves solemnly and fully. A person belongs to this familia in the high Roman sense, he is the son of his father, and he is the son of his father, and this unbroken chain is absolutely unshakable, in it everyone has his place.

There are several stories from children from shipbuilder families. I really love this piece from the text by Bachin Ruslan Andreevich from the collection of students of school No. 4 in Onega:

I understand that ethnographic work is probably mixed in with the family legend here, but this understanding that everything begins with the selection of pine, that when cut, the board should be doused with resin, that the karbas is sewn, and not built, like the river vessels of Central Russia - ​ I hear something absolutely genuine in this.

Next year, with a high degree of probability, we will continue the “Living Chronicle” in the Arkhangelsk region and will do it in the Smolensk region, which is also very interesting in a historical sense. I would dream of finding partners who would help us reach schools in the south, in Rostov and Krasnodar. To do this, the project needs to be supported by regional ministries of education. When we launched the competition in the Arkhangelsk region, everyone said: “What schools, what are you talking about! Teachers work from morning to night, fill out new magazines, spend nights working on homework.” And it's all true. But at the same time, it was the teachers who called us at night because a comma was placed incorrectly in the book, and now they don’t know what to do about it. This needs to be corrected immediately, because the work must be included in the competition. They were jealous of each other, they suspected that someone had peeked into their idea in order to draw up their own based on it. The passion that burns in them fascinates me. But I, of course, understand that if the local Ministry of Education does not give such passion, then holding the competition will be much more difficult.

And we, of course, were terribly lucky that the Vice-Governor for Social Affairs, Ekaterina Prokopyeva, quickly and passionately got involved. What happened in the Arkhangelsk region should show every administration and every region that they have a chance to write their lines in the real chronicle, where not only rulers and judges, but also everyone who is remembered by their children and grandchildren. And it’s not easy to organize such a large-scale project on your own; there are organizational costs: travel of technical specialists, work of the jury, and the laureates must be taken to where the awards are taking place. This year we will bring the winners to Moscow for the non/fiction fair. On December 3 at Litkaf they will tell their readers about how they worked on their books.

I would dream of holding this competition every year throughout the entire globe, because the Russian world is not the corner that the Russians managed to fence off with bayonets, but the Russian world is the world inhabited by people who speak Russian. I would be glad to see the Living Chronicle books written in Russian in Germany, Australia, Israel, and the USA. Today people who speak Russian live there, they raise their children, who also speak and write Russian. And their memory is also part of our common memory, which we would like to unite within this project. Each work uploaded to Ridero can be printed with the click of a button - ​at least one copy, at least five. Anyone can make a book that will take pride of place on the shelf of the family library.

Young authors write not only about the long past. Some convey the traumatic experience of the 90s: they talk about their grandfather, who was the best specialist at his factory, and then everyone left, and when orders returned in the 2000s, it turned out that there was no one to do them. But my grandfather remained at the plant, he knew how to do everything, now he is the most important, and for his experience and service they carry him in their arms. And even when the bitterness is very fresh, the grandchildren still talk about victory. A person cannot live only through grief. A person cannot live without memory of the past. A person must live in today. Since he is alive, his family has overcome all adversities.

Recorded it Anastasia Chukovskaya

Dedication

My grandmother -​superhero!

Recently, my younger brother Egorka and I watched a movie about Spider-Man on TV. In the film, people got into various troubles, and the main character saved them. After the film, Egor tormented me with the question: “How to become a superhero?” I thought for a while, and then said: “Superhero -This is a person who helps everyone and always. Expects nothing in return. He just loves people, loves his homeland. He is firmly convinced that the most important thing in the world is"This is love, loyalty and decency." Then it was Yegorka’s turn to think, he was silent for a long time, and then sighed and said: “Are there such heroes next to us?” At that moment our grandmother entered the room. I looked at her and realized that there really was a superhero living next to us!

No, our grandmother does not have a black belt in karate, does not know how to run like the wind, and she does not have a special super suit that would protect her from fire and water. She has none of this. So why do I claim that she is a superhero? There are reasons for this.

My grandmother lived a difficult life. She went through an orphanage, a hungry childhood, a serious illness of her mother, lack of money, and difficult post-war years. It would seem that those who survived at that time should have grown up to be tight-fisted people. But grandma is not like that at all! Everything she has in her home, in her heart, in her soul, she is ready to give to people.

After graduating from school, she went to work in construction. The work is hard for a young girl! How not to break down, how not to start crying and blaming fate for everything, worrying about yourself. But grandma overcame everything, she thought more about others. That’s probably why I went to study to become a teacher and work in a school. Just imagine how scary it is to enter a classroom where students -​your peers, take responsibility for their future! After all, if you don’t explain and teach in the right way, what will the guys turn out to be? But grandma did it! She simply sighed and entered the classroom.

Popov Eremey,
Novodvinsk

This is, in fact, grandma. Quite an unexpected superhero image