About the funds of the Valdai Iversky Monastery in the Archives of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which reveal a very interesting panorama of life in Russia in the second half of the 17th century, says Doctor of History Pavel Vladimirovich Sedov in the program “Archival history” on the radio “Grad Petrov”.

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