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On November 1, 2015 is the 80-year anniversary of outstanding historian, a specialist in Byzantine history, corresponding member of the RAS, D. Sc. in History and a remarkable person Igor Pavlovich Medvedev. He is a symbol of both Byzantine history studies and the destiny of Saint Petersburg institute of History, where he has been working…
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Scientists of the 21st century
On April 13, 2016 at the “Academics House” (“Dom uchionyh”) took place regular conference of beginner researchers “Scientists of the 21st century”. Pupils and students of high schools of Saint Petersburg participate in this conference organized by the “Academics House” (“Dom uchionyh”) in constant cooperation with Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS for…
To the memory of the scholar
On September 14, 2016 Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and all the academic community suffered a great loss. The leading research fellow of the Institute, D.Sc. in History, outstanding specialist in the history of Russia of the 19th-20th centuries Evgenii Mihailovich Balashov died.
Encyclopedia “Russia during the Civil War 1918 – 1922”
Three-volume Encyclopedia “Russia during the Civil War 1918 – 1922” (Moscow: Political Encyclopedia, 2021) was published. It is a fundamental scientific work, which presents the military, political, economic, and cultural processes that took place in the country in 1918 – 1922. The publication includes over 2900 entries about the events of the civil war, considered…
“Philosophers’ steamboat – a hundred years in the ocean of history: new facts, images, reflection” – All-Russian scientific conference
The “Philosophers’ Steamboat” is one of the controversial and discussive issues for the history of Russia. The events denoted by this phrase are a kind of symbol of the dramatic split of the unified culture of Russia into the intellectual and cultural space of the Russian Diaspora and the Soviet Russia. Largely because the circumstances…