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On December 26, 2017 Antonina Fedorovna Tutova, who was the head of the Institute’s library in 1978-1998, deceased. From 1956 till 2014, all her life, Antonina Fedorovna worked in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was a kind and considerate person, really loved institute and her job. For several generations of…
A new book
The publishing house Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana has published a scientific reference edition Dictionary of St. Petersburg antiquities of the 19th – early 20th centuries: in 3 volumes / A. K. Gavrilov (editor-in-chief) and others; SPb., 2021. ISBN 978-5-4391-0715-5. This publication offers the reader alphabetical biographies of 250 St. Petersburg scholars, educators, artists, and writers who…
To the Day of Russian Science
On February 8 (January 28), 1724, by decree of the Governing Senate, by order of Emperor Peter the Great, the Academy of Sciences and Arts was established in St. Petersburg. According to the plan of Peter the Great, it was to become not only a scientific, but also an educational institution. A university and a…
Archive
The Scientific and Historical archive of Saint-Petersburg Institute of History was established as a successor to the collections of the Archeographic commission (it was created by Nicholas I in 1837, and its aim was to gather, study and publish historical sources on the history of Russia) which by the 1917 numbered 92 funds and collections…
300 years of the decree of Peter I on the succession to the throne
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On the centenary of the signing of the Svalbard Treaty
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