Chronicles of SPbIH RAS

On October 9, 2019 at St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya ul., 7) with the support from the European University in St. Petersburg and the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University (as the session of the seminar “History of the Soviet era”) there took place a scientific conference “An ordinary…

  Publishing house “Aleteia” republishes the rarest books of “The Byzantine Library” book series to mark its 20-year anniversary. This list included the book of academician I.P. Medvedev “The law standards of the Byzantine Empire” (“Pravovaya kultura Vizantijskoi imperii”; ISBN 978-5-89329-426-2). The author develops the concept of Byzantine Empire as a state based on the principles…

  The new book by B.N. Kolonitskii “#1917: Seventeen sketches on the history of the Russian revolution” has been published by the publishing house of the European University at St. Petersburg. ISBN 978-5-94380-243-0. One may think that the history of the year 1917 has been studied thoroughly for the past 100 years. However scholars still turn…

Dear colleagues! The Presidential Library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences invite to participate in the scientific conference “The book culture of the Muscovite Rus’ of 15th-17th cc.” [“Knizhnaya kul’tura Moskovskoi Rusi XV-XVII vv.”]. The conference is to be held on…