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New book
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To the Day of Russian Science
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The 39th volume of “Auxiliary historical disciplines”
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Archive
The Scientific and Historical archive of Saint-Petersburg Institute of History was established as a successor to the collections of the Archeographic commission (it was created by Nicholas I in 1837, and its aim was to gather, study and publish historical sources on the history of Russia) which by the 1917 numbered 92 funds and collections…

