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Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the leading research institutions of the Russian Federation in the sphere of Russian and General history. Many famous scholars, well known both in Russia and abroad, work in the institute. Institute has a long history and established contacts with many famous foreign…
Session of the Seminar on Old Russian history
Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS in cooperation with the Institute of History of SPbSU welcome everyone to session of the Seminar on Old Russian history which is to take place at 4.00 p.m. on November 30, 2017 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)) hosted by V.G. Vovina and A.V. Sirenov. This…

Old Russian town where the West and the East met – a new book on the history of non-confessional communities was presented in Novgorod
On June 8, 2022 in Novgorod Doctor of History Vadim Ibragimovich Musaev presented his new monograph “Different Christian communities in the North-West of Russia in the 1900s – 1930s”, in which the history of main non-Orthodox confessional communities of St. Petersburg/ Petrograd/ Leningrad and in general in the North-West on the basis of materials from…
New monograph
Publishing Centre “Gumanitarnaya Akademiya” issued the monograph by E.V. Prokhorova and E.D. Tverdyukova“Prodovol’stvennyi rynok Petrograda-Leningrada perioda nepa” (“The food market of Petrograd-Leningrad during the NEP period”). ISBN 978-5-93762-145-0. The book for the first time in historiography on the basis of wide amount of different sources (law and regulations, unpublished archival documents, statistical materials, periodicals,…
On the activity of the Scientific-Historical Archive
Since June 16, 2020 the Scientific-Historical Archive resumes execution of requests and making of digital copies of documents according to the demands presented by remote channels (postal letters and e-mail). The Reading Hall of the Archive will reopen for visitors from September 2020.

Autograph of History – Alexandrian sauce according to the recipe of “Collection of Apicius”
Can a cookbook serve as a historical source? If this is a copy of an ancient book of the 4th-5th centuries, then the researcher extracts a large amount of information from it. Cand. Sc. in History Ekaterina Nosova, a researcher at the Scientific and Historical Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History in the program…