St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies and Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS on April 26, 2020 plan to carry out joint International scientific conference «The Jews in the World History, Culture and Policy» covering a wide range of issues connected with these subjects.

The collection of reports is to be published by the start of the conference sessions. For futher information please connect the Organising body through following e-mail address: piikonf@gmail.com

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

The report by Candidate of Sciences in History K.A. Tarasov «The everyday life of Petrograd reserve regiments and batallions of the Guards on the eve of the February revolution» will be delivered. Report synopsis.

The session will take place on February 27, 2020 at 17.00 in SPbIH RAS

(Petrozavodskaya str., 7; Conference hall (room 23)).

Welcome everyone!

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 “Navy officers of Russia in the era of wars and revolution as an object for prosopographical research” will be delivered by professor of the Institute of History of SPbSU D.Sc. in History К.B. Nazarenko.

The session will take place on February 25, 2020 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).

Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS (SPbIH of the RAS) in cooperation with the National Library of Russia (NLR) and Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation with participation of International association of researchers of trade history, merchant class and customs and JSC “CentrInform” on 28-30 September, 2020 will conduct International Scientific Conference “Istoriya piteinogo dela i trezvennicheskogo dvizheniya v Rossii s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei” [“The istory of beverage manufacturing and abstinence movement in Russia from ancient times to modern times”].

Plenary and sectional sessions of the conference will be held in both SPbIH of the RAS and the National Library of Russia. The publication of collection of articles based on the reports delivered by participants of the conference is to be issued after the conference. For futher information: Information letter (in Russian).

 Publishing house “Pushkinskii fond” issued a collection of documents “Ministry finansov imperatorskoi Rossii E.F. Kankrin, M.Ch. Reitern, N.Ch. Bunge” [“The Ministers of Finance of the Imperial Russia E.F. Kankrin, M.Ch. von Reutern, N.Ch. Bunge”] composed by I.V. Lukoianov as a part of the series “Gosudarstvennye deyateli Rossii glazami sovremennikov” [“The Statesmen of Russia in the Eyes of Contemporaries”], ISBN 9785604279946. 

The book incorporates extracts from publicistic and literary works, memoirs and diaries of the contemporaries of E.F. Kankrin, M.Ch. von Reutern, N.Ch. Bunge – the Ministers of Finance of the imperial Russia, who held this position for more than 40 years and greatly contributed to the development of the Russian economy. These materials describe the abovementioned people as both the statesmen and persons. Statements of witnesses present to the readers how the role of the Ministry of Finance and its chief changed throughout 19th century. The book includes detailed commentary, index of names, glossary of special terms and has an inset with copies of archival documents.