St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and St. Petersburg Branch of the Archaeographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences invite you to take part in the International Scientific Conference “Research and Restoration of Manuscripts”. The conference will take place on November 9-10, 2022 in St. Petersburg. The letter of information.

St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences invites you to participate in the All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “The USSR in the 1970s: results of development and prospects (to the 45th anniversary of the Constitution of the USSR of 1977)”, which will be held as part of the 2nd St. Petersburg Historical Forum on 11 -12 October 2022 in St. Petersburg. The letter of information (in Russian).

Cand.Sc in History Alexey Vovin tells the audience of the program “Archival History” about the presentation of medieval commune in the Milan Acts of the beginning of the 13th century based on materials from the collection of N.P. Likhachev.

St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskiy Dom), St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences invite you to take part in the International Scientific Conference “The History of the Writing of European Civilization”, which will be held in St. Petersburg on October 10-14, 2022

Scientific meetings on the history of writing within the framework of the conference “History of Writing of European Civilization” have the task of promoting further research of handwritten materials representing the tradition of writing in Europe (including Russia), summarizing the results of recent research in Russia and abroad, exchanging the experience of researchers, identifying problems of current work and the definition of promising directions in the further study of writing and written monuments.

Three sections are expected to work:
– Handwritten book of Latin, Byzantine and Cyrillic traditions;
– Act and business letter of the Middle Ages and Modern times;
– Monuments of epigraphy from antiquity to modern times.

The letter of Information (in Russian)

The conference will be held in a mixed format: face-to-face and on-line.

The Organizing Committee undertakes to send a response to the applications received as soon as possible and no later than August 1, 2022.

On June 8, 2022 in Novgorod Doctor of History Vadim Ibragimovich Musaev presented his new monograph “Different Christian communities in the North-West of Russia in the 1900s – 1930s”, in which the history of main non-Orthodox confessional communities of St. Petersburg/ Petrograd/ Leningrad and in general in the North-West on the basis of materials from previously unpublished documentary sources was studied.

The meeting was attended by Novgorod historians, museum staff, representatives of religious associations of Novgorod.

Representatives of the Novgorod libraries that day had the opportunity to receive a new edition with the author’s autograph.

The presentation was organized by St. Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS, the Novgorod Museum-Reserve, the Department of Theology of Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University with the support of the Russian Historical Society. Among the guests of honor were Metropolitan Lev of Novgorod and Staraya Russa and Natalya Vasilievna Grigorieva, General Director of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve. The meeting was moderated by the head of the Novgorod group of the SPbIH of the RAS, Doctor of History B.N. Kovalev.

The collection of the Scientific and Historical Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences contains several dozen autographs of the first Russian emperor. The collection “Documents of Peter I” (Coll. 277) contains Peter’s decrees, letters, notes and drawings. Eight autographs of Peter I are exhibited at the virtual exhibition. The selected materials represent different types of Peter’s manuscripts.

In the first quarter of the 18th century, types of documents appeared that were unknown to the pre-Petrine era, and printing technologies began to be actively used. Samples of such documents from eight collections of the Scientific and Historical Archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences which chronologically cover almost the entire Petrine era, are presented at the exhibition “Handwriting of the Empire” in Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel. In total, fifteen original documents of the late 17th – first quarter of the 18th century (charter letters, patents for ranks, diplomas, travel letters) will be presented, “visualizing” the new image of Russia. Almost all of them have the personal signature of Peter the Great or Chancellor G.I. Golovkin and are certified by the state seal. The documents will be shown to the Omsk audience for the first time. Most of them have never been exhibited: only two documents from the collection of N.P. Likhachev previously took part in the exhibition of the State Hermitage Museum (2012). As part of the preparation of the project, the employees of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences have done a lot of scientific and scientific restoration work.

The opening of the exhibition took place on June 9, the birthday of Peter the Great.

The solemn ceremony was attended by the Deputy Director for External and Public Relations of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Doctor of History Yulia Zorakhovna Kantor, and curator of the exhibition, head of the Scientific and Historical Archive and Source Research Group of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Cand.Sc. in History Tatyana Anatolyevna Bazarova.