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New book
The book “War and blockade. Collection of articles in memory of V.M. Kovalchuk” (“Voina i blokada. Sbornik pamyati V.M. Kovalchuka”) has been issued by Nestor-Istoria publishing house. This collection of articles and materials is devoted to commemoration of a well-known specialist in history of the Leningrad blockade and the Great Patriotic War Valentin Mihailovich Kovalchuk. The book…
New monograph
Publishing Centre “Gumanitarnaya Akademiya” issued the monograph by E.V. Prokhorova and E.D. Tverdyukova“Prodovol’stvennyi rynok Petrograda-Leningrada perioda nepa” (“The food market of Petrograd-Leningrad during the NEP period”). ISBN 978-5-93762-145-0. The book for the first time in historiography on the basis of wide amount of different sources (law and regulations, unpublished archival documents, statistical materials, periodicals,…
The Last Wars of Russian Empire: Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905) and World War I (1914-1918) – conference
Saint-Peterburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences invites scholars to participate in the International academic conference “The Last Wars of Russian Empire: Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905) and World War I (1914-1918)”. The conference will be held from 20 to 21 November 2024 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Please send the application form to empire_wars@mail.ru. Application deadline is 1 October, 2024.
On 90-year anniversary of Rafail Sholomovich Ganelin
On October 18, 2016 memorial session of Scientific council of SPbIH RAS timed to 90-year anniversary of corresponding member of the RAS, D.Sc. in History Rafail Sholomovich Ganelin took place. The reports were delivered by T.V. Andreeva, A.N. Tsamutali, O.Yu. Malinova, S.K. Lebedev. A.S. Krymskaya, S.V. Kulikov, D.I. Raskin, V.A. Nardova, N.N. Smirnov confided their reminiscences about Rafail Sholomovich. T.V. Andreeva in…
A greeting card signed by Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
A greeting card signed by Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895–1918), the eldest daughter of Emperor Nicholai II, is addressed to the Chief Chamberlain of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Elizaveta Alekseevna Naryshkina. Today, this document from fund 76 (A.A. Kurakin) of the Archive of SPbIH of the RAS is presented at a virtual exhibition. The exhibition…
New books
The first volume of multivolume work “The First World War and the end of the Russian Empire”. Publishing house “Liki Rossii” issued “Political history” “The First World War and the end of the Russian Empire”. Centenary of the World War I (194-1918) has been marked by a lot of conferences, publications and research works. This…

