A Literary Salon "Everything Begins with a Fairy Tale…" Held at the Department of Literature and Russian as a Foreign Language

For the past five years, the Department of Literature and Russian as a Foreign Language has been organizing Literary Salons as a form of student engagement. During the 2024–2025 academic year, five such events were held. On June 3, students from the POryal-11 group held the final Literary Salon of the year, titled "Everything Begins with a Fairy Tale...". The event took place under the guidance of Associate Professor Anastasia Viktorovna Yakimova as part of the study of the "Children's Literature" course. The audience included professors and students from the Faculty of Philology and Cross-Cultural Communication. Students of philology demonstrated their knowledge of the subject through a theatrical performance about the re-education of a little heroine with the help of fairy tales. First-year students showcased a variety of talents: they wrote the script, designed vivid costumes representing characters from both Russian and foreign fairy tales (The Little Prince, the Mad Hatter, the Princess, the Rabbit, the Learned Cat, etc.), and managed the technical aspects of the performance. A particularly engaging part of the event was a quiz for the audience, also prepared by the students. It not only tested the guests’ knowledge, but also clearly demonstrated the first-year students’ grasp of the history and theory of children’s literature.