Online discussion of the monograph “Suffering and survival during the war: the life of people in the conditions of the blockade of Leningrad, 1941-1944” (published by the University of Oxford, 2021) by a well-known sociologist, professor at the University of Richmond and St. Petersburg State University Jeffrey Hass took place on April 11, 2022 within joint seminar of the laboratory “History of the Siege of Leningrad” of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Department of the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad – Institute of the History of Defense and Siege of Leningrad.

780 years ago, on April 5 (12), 1242, the Battle of the Ice took place on Lake Peipus. This battle is most vividly represented in the Novgorod annals. The virtual exhibition of one document displays pages describing the battle from the Commission copy of the Novgorod First Letopis, which is stored in the Scientific and Historical Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS.

“Woman and Revolution” and “Women in Revolution”, female style in diplomacy and female destinies of “icons of the revolution” – these and other subjects have been discussed at the scientific conference “Revolution. Woman’s face”, organized by SPbIH of the RAS and ROSSPEN Publishing House. The conference took place on March 31, 2022 in a zoom conference format.

On March 22, researchers from the Novgorod group of SPbIH of the RAS took part in a round table timed to the 100th anniversary of the sign of the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee “On the Procedure for the Seizure of Church Treasures Used by Groups of Believers”. The round table was organized by the Russian Historical Society, the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve, the Novgorod Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church, St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The scholars delivered reports on the problems of studying these processes in the Novgorod province.
Employees of NGOMZ and the Staraya Russa College of Novgorod State University, St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, local historians and clergymen of the Novgorod Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church took part in the discussion of the reports.