Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcomes everyone to the session of the seminar “Russia in the Modern Era (the 18th – the beginning of the 20th cc.): the state and the society”
The report by Candidate of Sciences in Philology M.Yu. Koreneva and Candidate of Sciences in Philology E.O. Larionova (Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), RAS) «The archive of Turgenev brothers: contemporary status and prospectives of study and publication of manuscript materials»  will be delivered. Report synopsis.
The session will take place on January 30, 2020 at 17.00 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)).
Welcome everyone!

Publishing Centre “Gumanitarnaya Akademiya” issued the monograph by
E.V. Prokhorova and E.D. Tverdyukova“Prodovol’stvennyi rynok Petrograda-Leningrada perioda nepa” (“The food market of Petrograd-Leningrad during
the NEP period”). ISBN 978-5-93762-145-0.

The book for the first time in historiography on the basis of wide amount of different sources (law and regulations, unpublished archival documents, statistical materials, periodicals, diaries and memoirs of contemporaries) presents to the readers a complex study of the features of the food market of the greatest city centre of the Soviet Russia – Petrograd-Leningrad in the period of the New Economic Policy (1921-1928). This study may be of interest to both specialists and vast circles of public.

The new book “Leningrad i leningradtsy v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny 1941-1945” (“Leningrad and Leningraders in the years of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”)composed by A.N. Tchistikov in collaboration with E.P. Shelaeva and D.P. Mitiurin has been published by ANO ROSSICA “Liki” (ISBN 978-5-87417-610-5).

The publication incorporates historical essays, documents from state and private archives, diaries and memoirs of Leningrad citizens, which outline different aspects of the everyday life of the city in the years 1941-1945. The book has a wide range of illustrative materials (more than 650 images) including archival and modern photographs, sketches, engravings, posters and paintings of war and post-war periods.

Dear visitors!

The Reading Hall
of the Scientific-Historical Archive of the Institute

will be closed from December 25, 2019
till January 8, 2020 (inclusively).

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.

St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University announce a meeting of the Seminar on the Old Russian History which will be held on December 12, 2019, at 16.10 in St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya ul., 7, Conference Hall).
 
At the session N.V. Bashnin (SPbIH of the RAS, senior researcher, Cand.Sc. in History) delivers a report “Census books of the 17th – the beginning of the 18th cent. as historical sources (on the basis of Vologda Archbishop House)” (“Perepisnye knigi XVII – nachala XVIII v. kak istoricheskii istochnik (po materialam Vologodskogo arkhiereiskogo doma)”).
 

At the seminar the launching of the monograph by N.V. Bashnin “Perepisnye knigi votchin Vologodskogo arkhiereiskogo doma Sv. Sofii 1701–1702 gg.: Issledovanie i teksty» (“The census books of the estates of Vologda Archbishop House of St. Sofia of 1701-1702: research and texts”) will take place.
 
The synopsis of the report (In Russian).

Leading researcher, D.Sc. in History Boris Nikolaevich Kovalev was granted Yaroslav the Wise medal of the First Class (the highest distinction of Novgorod State University). The ceremony took place at the “Antonovo” concert hall.

Friends and colleagues cordially congratulate Boris Nikolaevich with the award.