The publishing house «Istoricheskaya Illustratsiya» released the next issue of “Proceedings of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences” “Peter the Great, Russian authorities and society in the era of change: Collection of articles timed to the 70th anniversary of Yuri Nikolaevich Bespyatyh” (“Petr Velikii, rossiiskaya vlast’ i obshchestvo v epokhu peremen: Sbornik statei k 70-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya Yuriya Nikolaevicha Bespyatykh”). ISBN 978-5-4469-1479-1.
The issue 5 (21) of the “Proceedings” is timed to the 70th anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuri Nikolaevich Bespyatyh. The collection includes the works of his colleagues and disciples on the issues of the era of Peter the Great. The first section includes articles revealing the role of the North in the political and economic life of the Russian state in the late XVII – early XVIII centuries. The studies that made up the second section focus on the biographies of Peter the Great and his contemporaries: statesmen, diplomats, and military officers. The third section discusses various aspects of the history of St. Petersburg in the first third of the 18th century.
The publication is designed for historians and all those interested in the history of modern Russia.
