In memory of the outstanding historians

On June 9-11, 2016 International colloquium “The age of wars and revolutions (1914–1922)” will take place at the European University at Saint Petersburg. The conference is organized by Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, European University at Saint Petersburg, North-West branch of Scientific Council of the RAS on History of Social Reforms, Social Movements…

Ahead of 75th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences publishes on its website the new historical source – the memoirs of Petersburg architect Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov about his work on “Leningrad Hero City Obelisk”, opened in 1985…

“Gyol” publishing house issued the second, enlarged and altered edition of book by T.A. Bazarova “The creation of “Paradise”: Saint Petersburg and Ingria under Peter the Great. Studies” (“Sozdanie “Paradiza”: Sankt-Peterburg i Ingermanlandia v epohu Petra Velikogo. Ocherki”). The book deals with the history of the Ingria region and Saint Petersurg in the first years…

“Istoricheskaya illustratsia” publishing house has issued a new book of T.A. Bazarova “Russian diplomats at the court of the Ottoman Empire: reports of P.P. Shafirov and M.B. Sheremetev of 1711-1712 (The study and the texts)” (“Russkie diplomaty pri Osmanskom dvore: stateynye spiski P.P. Shafirova i M.B. Sheremeteva 1711-1712 godov (Issledovaniya i teksty)”). This publication introduces…

  On May 17, 2017 in the library of the Higher school of technology and power engineering of Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design the round-table discussion “The destiny of the unique copy of the scholarly work of Nikolai Petrovich Lihachev” took place. The representatives of Saint Petersburg Institute of History (A.V. Chirkova),…