On September 17-18, 2019 the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS and Saint Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences carry out conjoint scientific conference on issues connected with study and restoration of manuscripts.

Everyone interested in discussion over the reports and volunteers to visit the exhibition is welcome.

The conference agenda (in Russian)

Istoricheskaya Illustratsiya publ. issued the monograph by T.V. Andreeva “On the Way to the Great Reform: The Peasant Question in Russia under Nicholas I. Study and Documents” (“Na dalnih podstupah k Velikoi Reforme: krestianskii vopros v Rossii v tsarstvovanie Nikolaya I”) (ISBN 978-5-89566-193-2).
The monograph deals with pre-history of the Great Reform 1861, abolishing bondage in Russia: with its theoretical and practical preparation. The Reform is presented as a long process, stipulated by complexity of Russian modernization, and by no means sudden act. For the first time in home historiography the policy of Nicholas I towards peasants’ problem is examined comprehensively, based on the analysis of both basic official materials and private documents.

The book was published with financial support from Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project № 18-19-00208) and is not for sale.

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)