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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…
Preliminary results of the conference “Alexander I. The tragedy of the reformer…”
The conference which took place on September 15-16, 2015 at SPbIH of the RAS aimed to determine the role of the reformatory efforts of the power and society of the first quarter of the 19th century for the historic development of Russia. The main feature of this event was its originality as the first scientific…
New monograph
“Alliance-Archeo” publishing house issued a book by N.V. Bashnin “Dionisii Glushitskii monastery and its archive in the 15th-17th centuries: Research and texts” (“Dionisievo-Glushitskii monastyr i ego arhiv v XV-XVII vv.: Issledovanie i teksty”). The monograph deals with the history of the monastery, and on the basis of multiple sources from archives of Moscow, Saint…
On the 160th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Russia
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…
New book
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…
What was traded in the North-West of the Russian Empire at the turn of the century
What the Novgorod merchants traded, with which foreigners they corresponded, from where they brought the goods to the banks of the Volkhov – the trade history of the ancient Russian city was presented by the employees of the Novgorod group of St.Petersburg Institute of History D.Sc. in History Boris Nikolaevich Kovalev, Cand. Sc. in History…