International Scientific Conference “Mastering of the North: From the Past to the Future”

On May 27, 2016 at the assembly hall of Smolny ceremonial presentation of badges of laureates of the prizes of the city government in the spheres of culture, science and engineering, education. leading researcher, Doctor of Sciences in History Zoya Vasilievna Dmitrieva was awarded the rank of laureate of E.V. Tarle prize. Being well-recognized specialist…

“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…

    “Nestor-Istoria” publishing house issued a book “Krauze Friedrich. Letters from the fronts of World War I (1914—1917)” (“Krauze Friedrich. Pisma s Pervoi Mirovoi (1914—1917)”) composed and edited by O.F. Krauze and L.A. Bulgakova. It includes correspondence between sanitary inspector of the Russian army F.O. Krauze and his fiancée (then wife) pediatrician A.I. Dobrohotova….

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…

All-Russian Museum and Historical Project “Alexander Nevsky: The Great Northern Route”.  To the 800th anniversary of the statesman, commander and saint.          Prince Alexander Nevsky, an outstanding commander, political and statesman of Russia in the 13th century, played a big role in the history of Russia, not only in the era when he lived. In…