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 rare archival document acquired by N.P. Likhachev for his collection in Germany or Austria.
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Meeting with the President of the Russian Federation – on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Russian Historical Society and the Russian Military Historical Society
Director of SPbIH of the RAS corresponding member of the RAS A.V. Sirenov and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher of SPbIH of the RAS B.N. Kovalev took part in the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin with Russian historians and heads of traditional confessions in Russia. The meeting took place…
The Seminar on the Old Russian History
St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University held a meeting of the Seminar on the Old Russian History on September 26, 2019 at 16.10 in St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya ul., 7, Conference Hall). During the meeting,…
In memory of the outstanding historians
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Scientific journals and periodicals
“Petersburg historical journal” (“Peterburgskii istoricheskii zhurnal”) “Auxiliary historical disciplines” (“Vspomogatelnye istoricheskie distsipliny”). “Novgorod historical articles” (Novgorodskii istoricheskii sbornik).
New book
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