Information and cultural centre Russian Emigration, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and D.S. Likhachov fund on April 19-21, 2018 will organize in Saint Petersburg International Conference the 8th Nansen Readings “Centenary of the Foreign Russia”. Programme of the Conference
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