The program “Archival history” with the participation of the chief curator of the Western European section of the Scientific and historical archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. Natalia Sredinskaya presents to the audience the Italian documents from the collection of N.P. Likhachev – a lifetime copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a fragment of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s handwritten text, as well as musical manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

Similar Posts

The session of the seminar “The history of the Soviet era”

Dear colleagues! Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcomes you to participate in the session of the seminar “The history of the Soviet era”. The report “The attemps of anti-Bolshevik underground organize a rebellion in Petrograd in 1918” will be delivered by research fellow of the Institute Candidate of Science in History К.А….

In memory of the scholar

On the eve of the Victory Day collective of our Institute suffered an irretrievable loss. On May 8, 2020 Viktor Nikolaevich Pleshkov – D.Sc. in History, scientific adviser of the Department of General History, outstanding specialist in American history, who for 14 years was the head of Saint Petersburg Institute of the RAS has died…

Collective monograph “People and Power: Occupants, Collaborationists and Partisans on the Border Territory of Belarus and North-West Russia in 1941-1944”

Collective monograph “People and Power: Occupants, Collaborationists and Partisans on the Border Territory of Belarus and North-West Russia in 1941-1944”

As part of a joint Russian-Belarusian scientific project, a collective monograph “People and Power: Occupants, Collaborationists and Partisans on the Border Territory of Belarus and North-West Russia in 1941-1944” was published. It examines the issue of the relationship of the civilian population with members of the resistance movement, representatives of the German occupation and local…

New publication

  “Alliance Archeo” publishing house issued “The books of money income and expense of the Vologda Archbishop House of Saint Sophia and the tax-books of churches belonging to the diocese of Vologda. The 17th – early 18th century” (“Prihodno-rashodnye denezhnye knigi Vologodskogo arhiereiskogo doma Svatoi Sofii i okladnye knigi cerkvei Vologodskoi eparchii. XVII-nachalo XVIII veka”)….

Scholar’s anniversary

      March 24 is a birthday of leading research fellow of Scientific and Historical Archive and Group for source studies, Doctor of Science in History Elena Konstantinovna Piotrovskaya. For more than forty years she works at the institute, and throughout this period she has given good account of herself both as worthy scholar…

“Autograph of History” – a ship’s certificate signed by the author of the US Constitution

James Madison, the 4th President of the United States, ship’s certificate and legalized piracy in the Mediterranean region at the beginning of the 19th century in the story of Ph.D. Sergei Aleksandrovich Isaev, Acting Head of the Department of General History of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on a…