On the schedule of the Reading hall of the Archive

 Publishing house “Pushkinskii fond” issued a collection of documents “Ministry finansov imperatorskoi Rossii E.F. Kankrin, M.Ch. Reitern, N.Ch. Bunge” [“The Ministers of Finance of the Imperial Russia E.F. Kankrin, M.Ch. von Reutern, N.Ch. Bunge”] composed by I.V. Lukoianov as a part of the series “Gosudarstvennye deyateli Rossii glazami sovremennikov” [“The Statesmen of Russia in the…

Scientific-research paleography practice for students from Petrozavodsk State University was conducted from June, 29 till July, 3 at Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS. First-year, second-year and third-year students from the Department of History participated in this practice. During the period of practice the scholars of the Institute delivered summarizing lectures and carried…

In the middle of February 2016 at the Reading hall of the Library of SPbIH of the RAS the exhibition “The history of the Institute – the history of the Library” timed to 80-year anniversary of the Institute has been opened. The books inherited by the library from the Archaeographic commission and N.P. Likhachev’s collection are…

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…

“Istoricheskaya Illustratsiya” publ. issued a new monograph by Z.V. Dmitrieva and S.A. Kozlov “Taxes and wars in Russia of 16th-18th cent.” [“Nalogi i voiny v Rossii XVI-XVIII vv.”]. ISBN 978-5-89566-207-6 The monograph deals with the history of the Russian taxation in 16th-18th centuries in the context of “taxes-wars” issue. The authors outlined the impact of geopolitical…