Opening of the exhibition “Russian style” (“Russkii stil)”

  Istoricheskaya Illustratsiya publ. issued the monograph by T.V. Andreeva “On the Way to the Great Reform: The Peasant Question in Russia under Nicholas I. Study and Documents” (“Na dalnih podstupah k Velikoi Reforme: krestianskii vopros v Rossii v tsarstvovanie Nikolaya I”) (ISBN 978-5-89566-193-2). The monograph deals with pre-history of the Great Reform 1861, abolishing…

Academic council is social and scientific organization of Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and functions as advisory body. It discusses different issues concerning research work, science management and publishing activity of the Institute. Staff of the Academic council. Chairman of the Academic council: Sirenov Aleksey Vladimirovich, D. Sc. in History, Corresponding Member of…

On February 5 (16), 1722, the Russian Emperor Peter I signed the “Charter on the Succession to the Throne”, which changed the procedure for the transfer of supreme power in the state. From now on, the emperor himself appointed the heir to the throne. The exhibition presents the “Charter on the Succession to the Throne”…

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences announces the release of the next volume (XL) of the collection of articles “Auxiliary Historical Disciplines” (ISBN 978-5-86007-954-0; ISSN 0130-0865). This year it has changed the publication format. From now on, it will be published in a mixed format: as an electronic publication on…