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A new publication
The publishing house of “Pushkin fond” (Izdatelstvo “Pushkinskogo fonda”) issued a new book in a series “Gosudarstvennye deyateli Rossii glazami sovremennikov” (Russian statesmen through the eyes of contemporaries) “S.Yu. Witte in the memoirs of contemporaries” composed and edited by I.V. Lukoianov, SPb., 2018 (ISBN 978-5-9500595-2-0). Sergei Yulyevich Witte had a great influence on the development of…
Conferences in Novgorod
On February 28 – March 1, 2017 in the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve All-Russian Scientific Conference “The Treaty of Stolbovo and Restitution of the Novgorod Region to the Russian State” timed to 400-year anniversary of the Treaty of Stolbovo took place accompanied by the presentation of the books on the conference subjects. On March 6,…
Academicians and corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences among the Institute staff
Members of the Academy of Sciences Zhebelev Sergey Aleksandrovich 1867-1941. 1927 – Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1939-1941 – LbIH Grekov Boris Dmitrievich 1882-1953. 1935 – Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1936-1938 – LbIH Derzhavin Nicholas Sevastyanovich 1877-1953. 1931 – Member of the Academy of Sciences of…
New issue of “Auxiliary historical disciplines”
“Dmitrii Bulanin” publishing house issued the next 35th volume of collection of articles “Auxiliary historical disciplines” (“Auxiliary sciences of history”/”Vspomogatelnye istoricheskie discipliny”). It incorporates articles on different aspects of auxiliary sciences of history: source studies of Byzantine, Medieval Russian, Balcanic manuscripts; sigillography (sphragistics) of Russian documents of 18th century; etc. All the articles and…
Practical training and further training programs
Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences offers for foreign scholars special programs of practical training and further training. We have established relations with universities and research institutions from Finland, Germany, France, USA and South Korea. Eminently qualified specialists in Russian and General History, historiography and source studies working at the institute…
Autograph of History – Alexandrian sauce according to the recipe of “Collection of Apicius”
Can a cookbook serve as a historical source? If this is a copy of an ancient book of the 4th-5th centuries, then the researcher extracts a large amount of information from it. Cand. Sc. in History Ekaterina Nosova, a researcher at the Scientific and Historical Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History in the program…