The 9th Belyaev Readings, organized by the All-Russian Pushkin Museum and St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will be held on November 10, 2022. This year, the theme of the Belyaev Readings is “Idol on a Bronze Horse” in a historical retrospective”. The conference examines the image of Peter the Great in creative work of A.S. Pushkin, combining the research efforts of Pushkinists and historians from Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions of Russia.
The agenda of the Readings (in Russian).

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