Session of the Seminar on Old Russian history

The Russian Association for Anthropological American Studies, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS on June 24-25, 2020 carry out in Saint Petersburg the 9th International Symposium on American studies “The History of America: man, nations, cultures”. The 9th International Symposium on American studies,…

Round table “Landskrona, Nevskoe Ustye, Nyenskans in the history of Russia. A View from the 21st Century”dealing with the destiny of the Okhtinsky Cape, took place on June 3 in the framework of the popular science program of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Discussions in the house of N.P….

  “Kuchkovo pole” publ. in the book series “Zhivaya istoria” (“Live history”) issued the memoirs of V.N. Shakhovskoi “Tak prohidit mirskaya slava. 1893-1917” (“Sic transit gloria mundi. 1893-1917”) ISBN 978-5-9950-0990-0 (“Kuchkovo pole”); ISBN 978-5-9907259-8-0 (“Retrospektiva”). The publication provided with introductory article and commentary was composed by S.V. Kulikov. The author of the memoirs is now…

The library derives from the Archaeography commission, established in 1834 in order to collect and publish the documents of the Archaeography expedition. In 1920-s the Archaeography commission became the part of the Academy of Sciences, what made it much easier to collect and to use the funds of the library. Since 1930-s a lot of…