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March 24 is a birthday of leading research fellow of Scientific and Historical Archive and Group for source studies, Doctor of Science in History Elena Konstantinovna Piotrovskaya. For more than forty years she works at the institute, and throughout this period she has given good account of herself both as worthy scholar…
On Aleksander Il’ich Kopanev’s centenary
On October 20, 2015 a special joint session of the Scientific council of SPbIH and Saint Petersburg branch of Archaeography commission of the RAS dated for the centenary of an outstanding historian, specialist in source studies and archaeographer Aleksander Il’ich Kopanev took place. This session was divided into two parts: one with the scientific reports…

The 2nd Likhachev Readings and N.P. Likhachev Academic Award
The Second Readings in memory of Academician N.P. Likhachev will be held on April 14, 2022 at St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Historians, philologists, orientalists, archaeologists, art historians, as well as relatives of the scientist will gather in Likhachev’s house to honor his memory. For the first time, N.P….
New monograph
Nauka publ. in “Biblioteka vsemirnoi istorii” book series issued the second edition of the monograph by M.B. Sverdlov “Domongol’skaya Rus’: Knyaz’ i knyazheskaya vlast’ na Rusi VI – pervoi treti XIII v.”. ISBN 978-5-02-038250-3. The monograph of a prominent specialist in the history of Kievan Rus, M.B. Sverdlov, examines the early period of the…

“Autograph of History” – the nicknames of Russian princes
Aleksey Vladimirovich Sirenov, Director of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, tells about the origin of the nicknames of Russian princes and the oldest list of the Novgorod chronicle, containing a list of princely nicknames, from the collection of manuscripts of the Scientific and Historical…
Laureates of the Metropolitan Macarii Prize
On September 23, 2019, at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, a meeting of the Committee for the Award of the Makarii Prize in the Humanities in 2018-2019 was held, at which the laureates in 6 nominations were determined. In the nomination “History…