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Survival and humanity

Survival and humanity

Online discussion of the monograph “Suffering and survival during the war: the life of people in the conditions of the blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944” (published by the University of Oxford, 2021) by a well-known sociologist, professor at the University of Richmond and St. Petersburg State University Jeffrey Hass took place on April 11, 2022 within…

Autograph of History – vineyards of Notre-Dame d’Arbois church

Autograph of History – vineyards of Notre-Dame d’Arbois church

What is the significance of buying, selling, or bequeathing of a very small vineyard in a region of France historically important for winemaking on the basis of the example of two documents from the collection of Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History in the program “Autograph of History” reports Cand. Sc. in History Ekaterina…

To the 150th anniversary of the postcard – on March 26, 1872, the first postcard was issued in Russia

Late 19th – early 20th century called the “Golden Age of the Postcard”, when philocartist organizations appeared throughout Europe, magazines and catalogs were printed, international exhibitions were held, as well as congresses of collectors and publishers. The virtual exhibition presents images of postcards from the Minin collection of the Russian Section of the Archives of…

New book

“Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie” publishing house issued a new book by D.Sc. in History, professor B.I. Kolonitskii “Tovarisch Kerenskii”: antimonarchical revolution and formation of the cult of “the leader of the people” (March-June 1917)” («Tovarishch Kerenskiy»: antimonarkhicheskaya revolyutsiya i formirovanie kul’ta «vozhdya naroda» (mart — iyun’ 1917 goda)); ISBN 978-5-4448-0638-8. In his pioneering study the author demonstrates…

Scholar’s anniversary

      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…