The Seminar on the Old Russian History

On 90-year anniversary of B.F. Yegorov the Library of SPbIH organized exhibition “Boris Fedorovich Yegorov: on jubilee. Books, articles, memoires, autographs”. In two showcases books, collections of articles, articles and publications of the scholar are presented. The third showcase holds memoires of Boris Fedorovich, publications of his letters and bibliography of his works. At the…

The library presents to the visitors at the exhibition in the Reading Hall one of the most luxurious publications – “Tsarskaya ohota” (“The Tsars’ Hunt”) by N.I. Kutepov: Vol 2. Tsarskaya ohota tsarei Mikhaila Pheodorovicha and Alekseia Mikhailovicha. XVII vek (The Tsars’ Hunt of Tsars Mikhail Pheodorovich and Aleksei Mikhailovich. 17th century). St. Petersburg, 1898….

“Alyans-Archeo” publ. issued new book of N.V. Bashnin “Perepisnye knigi votchin Vologodskogo arkhiereiskogo doma Sv. Sofii 1701–1702 gg.: Issledovanie i teksty”. ISBN 978-5-98874-170-1. This publication incorporates census books (“perepisnye knigi”) of Vologda of Archbishops’ House of St. Sofia composed in 1701-1702. The texts of the documents not only contain data on social and economic history…

  “Kuchkovo pole” publ. in the book series “Zhivaya istoria” (“Live history”) issued the memoirs of V.N. Shakhovskoi “Tak prohidit mirskaya slava. 1893-1917” (“Sic transit gloria mundi. 1893-1917”) ISBN 978-5-9950-0990-0 (“Kuchkovo pole”); ISBN 978-5-9907259-8-0 (“Retrospektiva”). The publication provided with introductory article and commentary was composed by S.V. Kulikov. The author of the memoirs is now…

  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…