New Moscow libraries and who goes to them. Guide: what to eat at the restaurant day at the regional library "Anastasia Denisova's Cheese Factory"

In 2013, our Restaurant Day was dedicated to the “mad tea party” from Alice in Wonderland, and in 2014, to preserves and marmalades from the books. In 2015, we were already tired of desserts, and my colleague suggested the theme “Buffet” - that is, a buffet table, appetizers. We decided that it would be logical to connect the “buffet” with the literature of the Scandinavian countries.

On this day, pancakes (paper) were hung on all the door handles of our library. On the table were Carlson's meatballs, buns and Hildur Bok meat sauce, Moominmama's pancakes, fruit drink from Emil from Lenneberga, brought by readers... It is not surprising, because from Scandinavian literature we first of all remember the books of Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson and Andersen... It was with them that the game program was connected, to which we invited the children while the adults listened to a lecture on Scandinavian design.

The children made pipes out of cocktail straws - almost like Nils Traveled with the Wild Geese. The older ones tossed cardboard pancakes in the frying pan, trying to catch them after they had completely flipped over, in imitation of Pippi Longstocking.

By the way, in one of the stories about the strongest girl, the game “John's Mirror” was mentioned: the leader makes any movement, and the participants repeat after him. With older children we walk several circles; some show what is simpler, others take the opportunity to demonstrate their talents and skills.

Younger readers, meanwhile, play simple games with a conventional fairy-tale flavor. For example, they stretch on tiptoes when the presenter shouts in a bass voice: “Trolls!”, and crouch when in a thin voice he calls: “Thumbelina!” The tempo accelerates, the presenter confuses the children by changing the timbre - a classic of the genre that can be easily adapted to the desired topic. Just like a game when children frolic in the center of the circle, but must suddenly freeze when the Snow Queen “wakes up.”

New - well forgotten old. We took the opportunity to repeat with our readers the theatrical performance from three years ago. After acting out the story about “coats,” the children spontaneously begin to play “Blow-Blow” from Lindgren’s text.

It’s half a step from the lifestyle of book characters to their environment. We lay out three leaves: green means forest, white means sky, blue means sea, and name the representatives of the fauna of the Scandinavian region. The children’s task is to run to the correct piece of paper, depending on where this or that animal or bird lives.

And, of course, we can’t do without fishing: two presenters, holding hands, pretend to be a net and catch child fish who are trying to swim away from them. The main difficulty for our “fish” was the condition of not making sounds. It’s hard to step into such a role when you’re being hunted!

Nearby, kids color paper fish, which they then attach with a paperclip and catch on a magnetic fishing rod.

By the way, what about the food? Readers finished it in about twenty minutes, and then savored the cultural program. After all, it was Restaurant Day not just anywhere, but in the library, where everything becomes a reason to be transported into the world of book characters.

Maria Klimova
Photo by Christina and Dmitry Dolgopolov

LIBRARY DIGEST WWW.E-OSNOVA.RU RESTAURANT DAY IN ST. PETERSBURG LIBRARIES Restaurant Day is an international food festival, during which everyone can open their own restaurant for one day: at home, in the park or on the street. Over the several years of its existence, the project became so popular that even libraries could not resist and decided to participate. One-day restaurants were opened in two libraries of the ICBC named after. M. Yu. Lermontov, St. Petersburg - in the Children's and Open Workshops. Cake for book lovers CHILDREN'S LIBRARY A cafe “25 kilo” has opened on the territory of the Children's Room. The librarians themselves worked there. Irina Suslova, an employee of the Children’s Library, spoke more about the idea of ​​a book café: “The idea of ​​opening a one-day restaurant arose in the fall, when there was the previous Restaurant Day. I myself participated in the project both in the summer and in the fall, although as a consumer. And then some acquaintances began to encourage me: “Well, you are so active in the Children’s Room, why don’t you take part in the Restaurant Day?” In the end, I said: “Come on! Let's not wait for good weather! We do it right now, that’s all!” What could be the reason for a children's cafe, and even in a library? Of course, with books! We immediately remembered how much delicious food there is in children's books. The principle is this: each dish corresponds to some text. There are Carlson's buns and jam, Nosov's salt, pancakes, Woof-Woof sweet sausage, chocolate hearts, Maria Parr waffles and much more. Not necessarily for children - we also have “Golden Calf”. The books are laid out right there on the tables - you can see which dish is from which story. And the name “25 kilos” was taken from Dragunsky’s story, and we wanted it to be the same with us - with a lot of lemonade and fun! We cooked at home, yesterday and today. Readers also brought all sorts of tasty things. It was also very important for us to involve “Flying Animals” - a project that helps children with cancer. We understand how important it is for as many of our guests as possible to know about the existence of that No. 2 (26) February 2015 project and cartoon. The principle is this: readers pay for a treat into a donation box from Flying Animals. Thus, we ourselves do not receive any benefit - only pleasure, and all proceeds go to charity." OPEN WORKSHOPS New project of ICBC named after. M.Yu. Lermontov - “Open Workshops” - also took part in Restaurant Day. Library staff were preparing a grill right on Ligovsky Prospekt. “OM” not only opened their own one-day restaurant, but also acted as a platform for other “delicious” projects. There were dishes of Serbian cuisine, walkers, snacks, brownies, and even falafel, beloved by St. Petersburg residents. And in the evening everyone made dumplings together and watched the film “Wing or Leg” with Louis De Funes. OM art director Budimir Voroshilov told how it all came about: “Restaurant day is interesting. “OM” has a great team, we love to have fun and relax together. At first we didn’t think about cooking ourselves, we simply invited everyone to open their own restaurant on our site. So we gathered people according to the “sweet and salty” principle. And then they got involved themselves. Of course, this whole project is quite an adventurous idea. The “noodle makers” appeared here two days before the festival itself. I didn’t even go into details, I just said: “Come!” But everything turned out great!” http://lermontovka-spb.ru/about/kulturnyj-radius/restorannyj-den (prepared by Lada Chizhova) 40 SCHOOL LIBRARY!

On December 29, 2014, the teacher-librarian of our house, Galina Vasilievna Savelyeva, prepared a surprise for all the pupils of our house on the eve of the New Year, and this surprise consisted of a new form of work with library visitors and was called “Restaurant Day”.

On this day, 23 students from our home became visitors to this event. “Restaurant Day” is an international event whose history began in Finland. “We decided to create our own tea house “Read Tea”, because man does not live by bread alone.

What can you enjoy in such a restaurant? Spiritual food! Teas drunk in a variety of literary works. Each guest's snack is a book and desserts that literary celebrities were treated to.

We were treated to aromatic teas with a legend!

For the students who came to Restaurant Day, we prepared tea according to Eduard Uspensky - the same as the cat Matroskin himself drank!

They also drank tea from Mary Poppins, ate cookies from Alice “Alice in Wonderland” and jam from Carlson: “The jam is to blame for the fact that it is raspberry. Showing pity towards jam means being cruel to yourself,” so everyone liked raspberry jam.

It was fun, tasty and educational, they answered quiz questions, and the winners were Lyuba Zvorykina and Alyosha, in addition, Kristina Pikhtova was also specially noted.

Almost all the treats were swept to crumbs! Everyone liked it, and most importantly, they wanted to meet again for a cup of aromatic tea.

The Moscow library of 2016 is a cross between a lecture hall and a free coworking space. Here they make dates, drink coffee and study public speaking. Ekaterina Kamenskaya examined three libraries and came to the following conclusion: it is not necessary to read in the reading room.

My mother was the first woman in her family to receive a higher education (Film Faculty of VGIK) and simply could not come to terms with the role of a housewife. After several years of negotiations, dad let her go to work next door. In our house on Universitetsky Prospekt there was a Central Children's Library No. 96, and it is still there. Here, in the Senior Subscription Hall, my mother began to benefit society.

The 1995-style library smelled of dust and melancholy, and one could only speak here in a whisper. Silence and asceticism are the faithful companion of a library book. "What are you doing? You can't run here! You are in the LIBRARY! “You can’t do it with a sandwich! This is a LIBRARY!” Etc. In the library, as in the steam room, in the temple or in the hospital room, you must maintain silence, otherwise some strict woman will scold you like a schoolgirl. Excessive love of knowledge often turns into disrespect for human nature, but this is true, by the way.

Two years ago, renovations began in house No. 37A on Leninsky Prospekt, on the site of a former library. A wonderful place, high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and something like a bar promised that a decent restaurant would finally appear in the area. My husband and I were making idyllic bets. Novikov? Lamberti? Well, maybe Ginza at least? Fuck you. The library has reopened. Totally hipster, with a long white table, molded ceilings and an Italian mini-café that makes great flat whites. It turned out that the second coming of libraries and reading rooms is a new urban trend. Now everything is possible here.

And if you sometimes need a coworking space free of charge and new experiences, look for a library closer to home.

Russian State Library for Youth

Rare book hall, comic book hall and media laboratory. Conversations about Marxism-Leninism, yoga, public speaking, a Photoshop course and jazz improvisations. There is something to keep yourself occupied, but the visitors are already very busy. Thank God, peace and quiet in libraries has been abolished - now people, not books, are the main ones here. The only thing that reminded me of the library of my childhood was a woman who was reading a copy of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. During the hour and a half spent in the RGBM, of which ten minutes were spent registering, receiving a plastic card and finding a toilet, I observed the following scenes.

A psychoanalysis session was taking place right in the corridor on three chairs.

- Well, it's about acceptance! She no longer lives with you, does not take money! - said the older woman.

“Yes, but this fear remains,” answered the youngest, squeezing her knees.

On the third chair, a young man was reading his iPhone.

In the darkest room, a blonde and a brunette with identical haircuts, just children, were whispering and kissing, sitting at the same computer. The blonde showed great love initiative.

A student and a boy of about eleven were studying in the foreign literature hall. The boy was intelligent and smart—wearing a white shirt with a bow tie and a Vans cap with a yellow visor.

“Sitagi, gishi, nazu, asita,” the boy read, running his finger over the textbook, and the student sometimes corrected him. She turned out to be a Japanese language tutor.

The rare book room was closed.

In the hall of periodicals there were modern Esquire, Port, Liza and prehistoric magazines without pictures - New World, Moscow, Zarya and Foreign Literature, whose appearance has probably not changed since the reign of Khrushchev.

Behind a glass wall in the comic book room, four Georgian girls were playing cards. They had a lot of fun.

Mon-Fri 11.00-22.00, Sat-Sun 12.00-20.00.

A small, cozy and fashionable library a stone's throw from the Leninsky Prospekt metro station. There are only two halls and a mini-coffee shop between them. Croissants and cantucci. AD journal files. Complete works of Andrei Kurpatov. New members of the community are given an Old Believer paper form, but it is not necessary to take books home or read them on the spot - you can just come to work, which many do. Now, as has already been said, the weather in the library is made not by books, but by people.

The audience here is as diverse as life itself. The older generation is the most socially active.

I recently brought books here for bookcrossing. An elderly man immediately appeared nearby and took possession of the book “200 Laws of the Universe.”

“I’m about to say a boring thing,” he suddenly turned to the administrator. - The toilet paper is out, but you don’t care.

“Why isn’t there anything,” she answered. - It’s over - now we’ll hang a new one.

Visitors to Library No. 166 know that a neat grandmother in a beret sits on a low ottoman by the window almost every day. She comes to read the newspapers. Only once did I hear her loud, ringing voice, which sounded throughout the reading room, mini-coffee shop and flew into the next room.

- Well, you have to! - the grandmother exclaimed, addressing everyone present and the Lord God at the same time. - Well, it’s necessary, eh! Eight corpses!

Tue-Sat 12.00-22.00, Sun 12.00-20.00. Monday is a day off. The last Wednesday of the month is sanitary day.

Library No. 172 “Education of the working people”

According to the rules of life in a big city, libraries, like gyms, should be within walking distance from the metro. Library No. 172, which is located thirty steps from the Shabolovskaya metro station, is not crowded - that’s why people are especially welcome there.

In a vast hall, the size of which would be suitable for sports games, I was stuck near the “Anniversary Books 2016” rack. There was Woe from Wit, The Tales of Sherlock Holmes, Tom Sawyer and Crime and Punishment. While I was trying to Google the connection between these books and 2016, a man came into the library.

“Hello, I haven’t seen you for a long time,” she answered.

- What do you think, I’m sitting idle?! - the man suddenly cried out. - What do you think, I have nothing to do?!

- Yes, I just said that you haven’t come to us for a long time...

- So I, too, like you, work! I have a lot to do!

I looked with sympathy at the woman from the wardrobe.

“You know,” she said, “sometimes you think it’s better to remain silent.” There's actually a neurosis clinic in the next house. People often come to us from there. They walk by and come in. They take books. Some are normal, some are so complicated. You just look at a person, and he’s already throwing himself at you.

Marveling at the patience of this woman, I took the Strugatskys’ “Hard to Be God” from the bookcrossing table and, without registering at the library, went to the metro.