On December 10, 2022, the State Hermitage Museum opened a new permanent exhibition “Ancient writings of the Near and Middle East” in the gallery, which was named “Memorial Halls of the outstanding collector Nikolai Petrovich Likhachev”. Likhachev’s collections were kept in his house on Petrozavodskaya Street, where St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian…
The collection of business and personal documents of A.D. Menshikov, which made up his field office, has a very difficult history – they were either divided into parts, then they were again combined into one complex, they were prepared for printing and put aside, then they were considered lost. Cand.Sc. in History T.A. Bazarova in…
The publishing house “Aurora” issued a collection of documents “Leningrad on the eve of the Great Patriotic War. 1938–1941”. Ed. by A.I. Rupasov. St. Petersburg, 2022. The proposed edition of archival documents covers the history of Leningrad during the period immediately preceding the Great Patriotic War (October 1938 – June 1941). This practically unexplored period…
Otto I the Great was born on November 23, 912. The Holy Roman Empire founded by him lasted almost a millennium. The diploma of Emperor Otto, presented at the virtual exhibition, clearly demonstrates that such stability cannot be achieved through weapons alone, but relies primarily on the support of the citizens of the state, with…
The publishing house “Nauka” issued a collection of articles timed to the seventy-fifth birthday of Evgeny Viktorovich Anisimov “Man and Power in Russia in the 17th-18th centuries”. Ed. by P.V. Sedov and A.A. Selin. St. Petersburg, 2022. The articles included in this book examine the history of Russia in the 17th-18th centuries. The collection consists…
The 9th Belyaev Readings, organized by the All-Russian Pushkin Museum and St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will be held on November 10, 2022. This year, the theme of the Belyaev Readings is “Idol on a Bronze Horse” in a historical retrospective”. The conference examines the image of Peter the…
On November 9–10, 2022, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan will host the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “The Likhachevs. Life as a Service to the Fatherland”, timed to the 196th anniversary of the birth of Vice Admiral of the Russian Navy and public figure Ivan Fedorovich Likhachev (1826–1907), the…
As part of the program of scientific and anniversary events timed to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian ethnographer Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (1922–1999), the Mesoamerican Educational and Scientific Center named after. Yu.V. Knorozov of the Russian State University for the Humanities and the A.A. Fursenko Center for American Studies of St….
The “Philosophers’ Steamboat” is one of the controversial and discussive issues for the history of Russia. The events denoted by this phrase are a kind of symbol of the dramatic split of the unified culture of Russia into the intellectual and cultural space of the Russian Diaspora and the Soviet Russia. Largely because the circumstances…
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…
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