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The book “War and blockade. Collection of articles in memory of V.M. Kovalchuk” (“Voina i blokada. Sbornik pamyati V.M. Kovalchuka”) has been issued by Nestor-Istoria publishing house. This collection of articles and materials is devoted to commemoration of a well-known specialist in history of the Leningrad blockade and the Great Patriotic War Valentin Mihailovich Kovalchuk. The book…

  Nestor Istoria publ. issued a book by A.V. Chirkova “Diplomacy of the Western European documents of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era” (“Zapadnoevropeiskaya diplomatika Srednih vekov I Rannego Novogo vremeni”) (ISBN 978-5-4469-1596-5). Presented textbook is the first complex survey of the West European diplomacy in Russian after more than a centenary from publication…

Dear visitors! The Reading Hall of the Scientific-Historical Archive of the Institute will be closed from December 25, 2019 till January 8, 2020 (inclusively).

The exhibition “Alexander I and Russian society of the first quarter of the 19th century”. Its opening was timed to the all-Russian scientific conference “Alexander I. The tragedy of the reformer: people and the destiny of the reforms, the reforms and the destiny of people”. More than fifty original documents from the archival collection are…

The Western-European section of the Archaeographic Commission of the RAS and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS on May 22, 2020 conduct the 10th Scientific Readings in commemoration of O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya. We invite to participate specialists in Middle Age and Renaissance era studies as well as scholars studying Classics, the Byzantine Empire history and…