Peter the Great and his handwriting “in a hurry”. A virtual exhibition of one document timed to the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great

Based on the material from the funds of Scientific and Historical archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS research fellows of the Archive have created two sections of the virtual exhibition related to the collection of academician N.P. Likhachev (in Russian), presented now to the visitors of the Institutes website.

300 years ago, on September 10 (August 30), 1721 a peace treaty was signed between Russia and Sweden in the city of Nystad (Sw. Nystad, Fin. Uusikaupunki). The Nystad treatise was signed by representatives of two powers: from the Russian side – General Feldzheichmeister Count Ya. V. Bruce and Adviser to the Secret Chancellery A.I….

780 years ago, on April 5 (12), 1242, the Battle of the Ice took place on Lake Peipus. This battle is most vividly represented in the Novgorod annals. The virtual exhibition of one document displays pages describing the battle from the Commission copy of the Novgorod First Letopis, which is stored in the Scientific and…

To mark the 160th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Russia, a virtual exhibition of one document from the collection of the Archives of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences opens, and presents the album “Deputies of the provincial noble committees on the peasant issue of the second invitation to…

On February 8 (January 28), 1724, by decree of the Governing Senate, by order of Emperor Peter the Great, the Academy of Sciences and Arts was established in St. Petersburg. According to the plan of Peter the Great, it was to become not only a scientific, but also an educational institution. A university and a…