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When does history come to life?
On the eve of the Victory Day, the issue of searching and identifying pages of personal history that complement the macrohistory of the Fatherland is especially relevant for educating the younger generation of interest and respect for historical memory. Within the framework of the agreement between St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy…
New book
Publishing House “Political encyclopedia” (“ROSSPAN”) issued the new book by Yu.Z. Kantor “Pribaltika 1939-1945 gg. Voina i pamyat” [“The Baltics in 1939-1945. The War and the Memory”]. ISBN 978-5-8243-2405-1 . «The problem of the Baltic region» of the late 1930s – middle 1940s is quite controversial for both specialists and ordinary people in both Russia…
Fundamental and applied research projects
Main courses of research. Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS realizes fundamental and applied research projects on following subjects: Preservation and study of cultural, archeological and scientific heritage: revelation, systematization, description, restoration and preservation of the funds of the Scientific and historical archive of SPbIH of the RAS, publication of sources on Russian and…
Scientific journals and periodicals
“Petersburg historical journal” (“Peterburgskii istoricheskii zhurnal”) “Auxiliary historical disciplines” (“Vspomogatelnye istoricheskie distsipliny”). “Novgorod historical articles” (Novgorodskii istoricheskii sbornik).
A new book
The publishing house Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana has published a scientific reference edition Dictionary of St. Petersburg antiquities of the 19th – early 20th centuries: in 3 volumes / A. K. Gavrilov (editor-in-chief) and others; SPb., 2021. ISBN 978-5-4391-0715-5. This publication offers the reader alphabetical biographies of 250 St. Petersburg scholars, educators, artists, and writers who…
“Autograph of History” – anonymous complaint from Peru against the Grand Inquisitor of Spain
A document from the collection of letters from the papal nunciature in Spain of the years 1670-1675, kept in the Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, can tell about an amusing episode in Spanish and Latin American history. In the program “Autograph of History”, Ph.D., researcher of the…