On July 8, 2019 in Novgorod the Great at Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University starts the 21^st All-Russian Scientific Conference “Scribes’ Books and Other Mass Sources on the History of Russia of 16^th-20^th centuries” (“Pistsovye knigi I drugie massovye istochniki po istorii Rossii XVI-XX vekov”). This session is organized by Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, Saint Petersburg campus of the Higher School of Economics, Archeographic Commission of the RAS and its Saint Petersburg branch. the conference will be held till July 12, 2019.

The conference agenda (in Russian)

Nestor Istoria publ. issued a book by A.V. Chirkova “Diplomacy of the Western European documents of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era” (“Zapadnoevropeiskaya diplomatika Srednih vekov I Rannego Novogo vremeni”) (ISBN 978-5-4469-1596-5).

Presented textbook is the first complex survey of the West European diplomacy in Russian after more than a centenary from publication of N.P. Likhachev’s (1862-1936) series of lectures made in 1906 on the basis of students’ notes without author’s proof-reading. This book covers the gap presenting the review of contemporary tendencies in diplomacy, supporting all the points with examples from authentic medieval documents of both Russian and European Archives. Copies of the documents from private collection of N.P. Likhachev (now West European section of Archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS) serve as illustrations.

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS invites to the session of the seminar “Russia in the Modern era (the 18th – beginning of the 20th centuries): state and society”, that takes place on June 27, 2019 at 17.30 in the Conference hall of the Institute (room 23).
The subject of the session is the report of Candidate of Science in History T.N. Zhukovskaya (Institute of History of Saint Petersburg State University) “Saint Petersburg University in the first half of the 19^th century: debatable issues of administrative and social history”.
Everyone is welcome!

Dear colleagues!

This year will be 60-year anniversary of prof., D.Sc. in History Sergei Victorovich Yarov, who passed away in September 2015. One intends to honor his memory by organization of the conference, which is planned on October 9, 2019.
The conference will include two parts: scientific and memorial. The issues for the first are presupposed by scholarly interests of S.V. Yarov.
Informational announcement (in Russian)

Western-European section of the Archaeographic Commission of the RAS and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS on June 21, 2019 conduct the 9^th Scientific Readings in commemoration of O.A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya.

Its sessions take place at the Conference-hall (room 23) of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (address: Petrozavodskaya str., 7). The conference begins at 10.30.

Agenda (in Russian)

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS in cooperation with the Institute of History of SPbSU welcome everyone to session of the Seminar on Old Russian history which is to take place at 16.10 on June 20, 2019 in SPbIH RAS (Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)).
This time professor of the University of Florence Marcello Garzaniti will deliver a report on the issues of non-possessors’ ideology and Maximus the Greek.
Everyone is welcome!

Post-graduate student of the Department of the Contemporary History of Russia Vyacheslav Albertovich Mosunov was granted “Marshal of the USSR Kirill Meretskov” literature award for year 2019. The award ceremony took place on May 29, 2019 at Lenigrad region universal scientific library with the support from Committee on Culture of the Leningrad region.