Prosveschenie publ. issued the new book byB.N. Kovalev, S.V. Kulik, D.Yu. Astashkin “Zabveniyu ne podlezhit: okkupatsiya, soprotivlenie, vozmezdie” (“Not liable to oblivion: occupation, resistance, requital”) ISBN 978-5-09-075256-5.

The book presents to its readers a comprehensive description of the Nazi occupation of the Novgorod region with the analysis of economic, church and ideologic policy of the occupants and their accomplices, the study on military crimes of invaders and resistance movement. The information on the criminal prosecution of the war criminals in the 1940s-1960s is also provided by the authors. This book may be of interest for a wide range of readers interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War from scholars to school students.

The launching of the book took place on November 29, 2019 at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.

“G’yole” publishers issued new book by P.V. Krylov “Four centuries of Swedish Vyborg” (“Chetyre veka shvedskogo Vyborga”). ISBN 978-5-90479-093-6
The book presents to the readers the review of the Swedish period of the history of Vyborg in the broad Russian and European context. Based on the experience of numerous walks in the historic part of the town, this book contains information on monuments of Middle Ages and early Modern Era with the addresses.
The publication also includes biographic references composed by translator Jacub Lapatka.
The book is designed for broad range of readers and can be useв as the guide.

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcome everyone to the session of the seminar “Russia in the Modern Era (the 18th – beginning of the 20th cc.): the state and the society”

The report by A.T. Urushadze (Southern Scientific Centre of the RAS, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don) «”Caucasus is quite a special object”: emeperor, ministers and governors struggling for decision on political course at the southern extremity of Russia» will be delivered.

The session will take place on November 28, 2019 at 17.00 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)).

Welcome everyone!
The report synopsis (in Russian)

Dear colleagues!

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS welcomes you to participate in the session of the seminar “The history of the Soviet era”.

The report “The attemps of anti-Bolshevik underground organize a rebellion in Petrograd in 1918” will be delivered by research fellow of the Institute Candidate of Science in History К.А. Tarasov.

The session will take place on November 21, 2019 at 18.00 in the Conference hall of the Institute (Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Petrozavodskaya ul.,7, 3rd floor, room 23).  
The synopsis of the report (in Russian).

On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 15.00 at the Conference hall of Saint Petersburg Institute of History takes place the launching of reprint of the collection of documents “Alexander III” from the series “Statesmen of Russia in the eyes of contemporaries” (“Gosudarstvennye deyateli Rossii glazami sovremennikov”). The book has benn composed by V.G. Chernuha and I.E. Barykina and issued by the publishing house of “The Pushkinsii fund”.

The publication is timed to 125-year anniversary of the death of the emperor.

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 November 14, 2019 at 16.10 in St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (Petrozavodskaya ul., 7, Conference Hall).
 
At the session Ieronim Grahl (professor of the University of Warsaw, „Artes Liberales” faculty) delivers a report “Russian elite of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Union of Lublin of 1569”.
 
The sinopsys of the report (In Russian).

The Russian Association for Anthropological American Studies, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS on June 24-25, 2020 carry out in Saint Petersburg the 9th International Symposium on American studies “The History of America: man, nations, cultures”.

The 9th International Symposium on American studies, sequential to the series of symposiums on Native American studies and American studies of 1982 – 2018, is planned to represent the most contemporary results of researches on history and anthropology of countries and peoples of America, appreciate the contribution of disciples of academician A.A. Fursenko to Russian system of American studies and as well strengthen international and interdisciplinary status of Russian community of specialists on Anthropological American studies.
Further information (in Russian)