Readings in memory of academician N.P. Likhachev

  In popular science series “Afoot into history” an encyclopedia for children “We live in year 1917” (“My zhivem v 1917 godu”; ISBN 978-5-905474-70-5) composed by P.G. Rogozny has been published. The book presents the main events of the Russian history of that period along with the description of political parties and the most important characters….

  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…

On May 12, 2020 at 14.30 expanded session of the Scientific Council of SPbIH of the RAS timed to 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be held. The session will be carried online with the reports delivered by: Karpenko Irina Aleksandrovna, Cand.Sc. in History, academic secretary of the State Museum…

On June 1, 2016 in the frame of project “Self-organized structures of medieval town: genesis, classification, mechanism of functioning”(grant project of the Russian Science Foundation) at Saint Petersburg Institute of History session of the round-table discussion “Self-organized structures of medieval town: classical and neoclassical approaches” will take place. The meeting starts at 11.00 at the…

The memoirs of N.N. Pokrovskii “Last at Mariinsky palace: the memoirs of the Minister for Foreign Affairs” edited by S.V. Kulikov and D.N. Shilov have been published in the “Russia in memoirs” book series. The reader is presented the memoirs compiled not by a statesman but by a “scientist at power” who impartially verified party…

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