Session of scientific seminar “Russia in 19th – beginning of 20th century: state and society”

On August 12, 2021, in Vladimir, within the framework of the all-Russian intermuseum project “Alexander Nevsky: the Great Northern Route”, the exhibition “Alexander Nevsky: the Legend of the Saint” opened at Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, and the scientific colloquium “Alexander Nevsky and Vladimir Land” began at the Museum Center “Chambers”. Organizers of the project: St. Petersburg Institute…

  On April 13, 2017 Yurii Georgievich Alekseev, outstanding scholar, great specialist in Russian Medieval history, D.Sc. in History, professor of Saint Petersburg State University has died. Many years Yurii Georgievich worked in Saint Petersburg Institute of History. Burial service and funeral has took place on April 17. He was buried at Smolonskoye cemetery.

  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…

“Petrpolis” publishing house issued a monograph by S.N. Iskioul “The war and the world in Russia of year 1812”, SPb., 2015. This book unlike the previous historiography that took under consideration the war history examines the everyday life of different estates of the Russian empire of this period: clergy, nobility, peasantry and townspeople. The monograph…

  “Nestor-Istoria” publishing house issued regular volume (2 (18)) of the Proceedings of SPbII RAN “Saint Petersburg Institute of History in the documents of the 19th-20th centuries” (“Sankt-Peterburgskii institut istorii v dokumentah XIX-XX vekov”). This book is devoted to 80-year anniversary of the institute and consists of publications of its employees on the history of…