The First Lady toured a school museum devoted to Ivan Bagramyan (1897–1982) where school tour guides told her about this famous marshal and the school graduates who went to fight Nazis in 1941.
In a conversation with the First Lady, 11th grade students shared their plans for the future, their ideas to become doctors, linguists, or businesspeople. “I believe you can go forward with confidence and choose any path. What’s most important is not to be afraid of obstacles,” Svetlana Medvedeva noted. “You should first learn how to work and learn what you do not yet know. Besides, you should be attracted to what you do,” she advised a student who wants to become a businesswoman.
“In the meantime, you should fully enjoy your time as youngsters, as students, because the years you are in school are the best,” added the First Lady.
Svetlana Medvedeva joined the students for taking photos and gave them books called Walks through the Kremlin as souvenirs.
The First Lady also brought some presents to first-graders whose classroom she briefly visited to congratulate them on the beginning of their school careers. “I wish you health, success, and very positive moods,” she said, giving them “chocolate school boxes” with chocolate albums, pencils and erasers. She asked the children to study hard, learn a lot, and respect their teachers.
School director Liudmila Nemtseva gave the First Lady a brief tour of the school, which was established in 1936.
At the end of her visit to the school, Svetlana Medvedeva had tea with the teachers.