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On September 9 and 10 2020 the events timed to jubillees of the outstanding historians, organized by St. Petersburg Institute of History in cooperation with the Manuscript department of the NLR, will be held. The agenda of the events (in Russian).
Award winners
The award of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists for 2017 was granted to Cand. Sc. In History, research fellow of the Scientific and Historical Archive of the Institute Nikita Viktorovich Bashnin for his contribution to the research on relations between the state and the Orthodox church, developments of the monastery…
On centenary of the Great Russian Revolution of the year 1917
On occasion of Academic council meeting on March 14, 2017 when D.Sc. in History N.N. Smirnov delivered a report “Concerning several problems connected with the Great Russian Revolution of the year 1917” the Library of the Institute has installed an exhibition “Leningrad school of historians on the revolution of 1917”. The centennial of the February and…
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…
The 9th Belyaev Readings
The 9th Belyaev Readings, organized by the All-Russian Pushkin Museum and St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will be held on November 10, 2022. This year, the theme of the Belyaev Readings is “Idol on a Bronze Horse” in a historical retrospective”. The conference examines the image of Peter the…
“Autograph of History” – a ship’s certificate signed by the author of the US Constitution
James Madison, the 4th President of the United States, ship’s certificate and legalized piracy in the Mediterranean region at the beginning of the 19th century in the story of Ph.D. Sergei Aleksandrovich Isaev, Acting Head of the Department of General History of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on a…