St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History invite you to take part in the International Scientific Conference “Philosopher’s Steamboat – a hundred years in the ocean of history: new facts, images, reflection”. The conference will take place on November 17-18, 2022. Newsletter (in Russian).
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