Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcome everyone to the session of the seminar “Russia in the Modern Era (the 18th – beginning of the 20th cc.): the state and the society”

The report by I.E. Barykina (Herzen State Pedagogical University) «Dnevnikovye zapisi grafa I.I. Tolstogo (avgust-sentyabr’ 1881 g.) i materialy arkhivnogo fonda Otdela rukopisei Rossiiskoi natsional’noi biblioteki o deyatel’nosti Pereselencheskoi kontory v Syzrani (1881 g.)» [“The diary entries of count I.I. Tolstoi (august-september 1881) and materials of the archival fund of the Manuscript department of the National Library of Russia on the activities of the Emigrant Bureau in Syzran (the year 1881)”] will be delivered.

The session will take place on October 24, 2019 at 17.00 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)).

Welcome everyone!
The report synopsis (in Russian)

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