On December 26, 2017 Antonina Fedorovna Tutova, who was the head of the Institute’s library in 1978-1998, deceased.

From 1956 till 2014, all her life, Antonina Fedorovna worked in the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was a kind and considerate person, really loved institute and her job. For several generations of readers the Library of the Institute and memory of Antonina Fedorovna would be inseparable.

The publishing house of “Pushkin fond” (Izdatelstvo “Pushkinskogo fonda”) issued a new book in a series “Gosudarstvennye deyateli Rossii glazami sovremennikov” (Russian statesmen through the eyes of contemporaries) “S.Yu. Witte in the memoirs of contemporaries” composed and edited by I.V. Lukoianov, SPb., 2018 (ISBN 978-5-9500595-2-0).

Sergei Yulyevich Witte had a great influence on the development of Russia. Due to his efforts Russian economy in 1890s-1900s was growing. He saved the monarchy insisting on Nicholas II signing the Manifesto of the October 17^th giving Russian people basic civil liberties. Being an opponent to war with Japan Witte wasn’t able to prevent it, but succeeded in making acceptable peace.

Numerous evidences of both associates and opponents of Witte, included in this book, present the readers not only a strong but contradictory person, they also offer a description of conflicting epoch of the two last Russian emperors when the destiny of the country was at stake.

“Dmitrii Bulanin” publishing house issued the next 36^th volume of collection of articles “Auxiliary historical disciplines” (“Auxiliary sciences of history”/”Vspomogatelnye istoricheskie discipliny”, ISBN 978-5-86007-841-3). It incorporates articles on different aspects of auxiliary sciences of history: the documents on Medieval Russian history, the Peter the Great era, Russian history of the 19^th-20^th centuries are put under examination. The articles of this book reflect modern approaches to different source studying disciplines (archaeography, diplomatics, epigraphy, etc.). All the articles and materials are published for the first time ever.
This publication has been issued with grant support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project №17-01-16059). Totally not for sale.

The collection of documents “Stenogrammy zasedanij ispolkoma Leningradskogo gorodskogo Soveta. Zapisi obsuzhdenij, zamechanij k proektam, reshenija nojabr’ 1941—dekabr’ 1942 gg.” has been issued by “Art-Express” publishers (ISBN 978-5-4391-0341-6).

Publication of the materials from the Central State Archive of Saint Petersburg is the first one of this kind. The stenographs of speeches of Soviet leaders show the readers apart from tragedy of the first winter of the Blockade tense and desperate struggle for restoration and preservation of the city infrastructure vital for hundreds of thousands of Leningrad residents. Moreover, the published documents shed a new light on everyday work of Leningrad administration in the extreme period of the history of this great city.

This publication is dedicated to the memory of historians, who studied the Siege of Leningrad, Andrey Rostislavovich Dzeniskevich and Valentin Mihailovich Kovalchuk.

On December 13, 2017 at the Institute of Humanities of Novgorod State University began the conference “Russian province during the Revolution oа the year 1917”. The conference is carried out as a part of collaboration between the Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University, Saint Petersburg Institute of History and Novgorod metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Both lecturers and students of different specializations of Humanities participate in this event.

“Liki Rossii” publishers issued a collection of articles of participants of the International scientific conference “Russia and the world in the end of the 19^th and beginning of the 20^th centuries” (“Rossiya i mir v kontse XIX — pervoy polovine XX v.”) timed to 85-year anniversary of B.V. Ananich (ISBN 978-5-87417-536-8).

It includes the articles of disciples, colleagues and successors of the scientific school of the academician of the RAS Boris Vasilievich Ananich (1931-2015). The major subjects are economy and imperialism in the end of the 19^th and beginning of the 20^th centuries; economic policy and business; internal policy of the Russian Empire; issues of relations between scientists, scholars, cultural figures and authorities.

The publication was prepared with the financial support from the Russian Foundation for Humanities (project № 16-01-14056).

Based on the material from the funds of Scientific and Historical archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS research fellows of the Archive have created two sections of the virtual exhibition related to the collection of academician N.P. Likhachev (in Russian), presented now to the visitors of the Institutes website.