We announce with deep regret that following short-term disease the oldest research fellow of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, an outstanding specialist in Russian culture and social movements of the 19th century Doctor of Philology, professor Boris Fedorovich Egorov died on October 3, 2020.
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