As part of the program of scientific and anniversary events timed to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian ethnographer Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (1922–1999), the Mesoamerican Educational and Scientific Center named after. Yu.V. Knorozov of the Russian State University for the Humanities and the A.A. Fursenko Center for American Studies of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences hold a scientific seminar dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Yu.V. Knorozov and the 70th anniversary of the first publication on the decipherment of Mayan writing.

The seminar will take place on November 10, 2022 at SPbIH RAS (Assembly Hall), beginning at 12.00. The program of the Scientific Seminar

The “Philosophers’ Steamboat” is one of the controversial and discussive issues for the history of Russia. The events denoted by this phrase are a kind of symbol of the dramatic split of the unified culture of Russia into the intellectual and cultural space of the Russian Diaspora and the Soviet Russia. Largely because the circumstances associated with the expulsion of a large group of intelligentsia from Soviet Russia in the autumn of 1922, even 100 years later, attract close attention of not only specialists, but also everyone who is interested in the history of Russian culture and science.

Addressing this event today is an opportunity to return to historical sources, to comprehend the place of Russian social and philosophical thought in the world socio-humanitarian tradition, to trace successive lines and perspectives.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the “Philosophical Steamboats”, the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History are holding the All-Russian Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference “Philosophical Steamboat – One Hundred Years in the Ocean of History: New Facts, Images, Reflection”.

The conference will be held on November 17-18, 2022 at St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in full-time and remote format.

Following the results of the conference, it is planned to publish a collection of reports.

Conference program (in Russian).

Director of SPbIH of the RAS corresponding member of the RAS A.V. Sirenov and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher of SPbIH of the RAS B.N. Kovalev took part in the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin with Russian historians and heads of traditional confessions in Russia. The meeting took place on November 4, 2022 at the Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow and was timed to the 10th anniversary of the Russian Historical Society and the Russian Military Historical Society.

On November 1, 2022 at the Presidential Library within the framework of the project “Knowledge about Russia” a video lecture “Time of Troubles. Problems of source studies and historiography” took place. The event was timed to the Day of National Unity.

Researchers from St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the program. In the speech of the Deputy Director for Scientific Cooperation of St. Petersburg Institute of History D.Sc. in History Varvara Gelievna Vovina spoke about the origin and handwritten tradition of one of the most important monuments of Russian literature of the 17th century – the “New Chronicler” – a historical source of the Time of Troubles. Andrey Pavlov, D.Sc. in History, Senior Researcher of St. Petersburg Institute of History spoke about the historiography of the Time of Troubles in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods.

On November 10, 2022, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host the 3rd Scientific Conference “Research and Restoration of Manuscripts”, organized by 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.
Restoration of manuscripts, books and documents is one of the topical areas of work with written sources, which ensures the safety of written monuments and leads to new discoveries when studying them. The restoration of handwritten books is invariably the most fruitful as a complex discipline that unites the efforts of researchers, curators and restorers.
The conference will be attended by restorers, researchers and curators of handwritten and rare books, handwritten documents.
The following issues are proposed for consideration and discussion in the program of meetings:
interdisciplinary approach to research and restoration of manuscripts;
modern methods of restoration and automated systems for monitoring the preservation of written monuments;
restoration as an element of the study of book monuments and documents;
new discoveries and new methods in the study of monuments during restoration;
manuscript before and after restoration: a new look at the monument;
medieval and antique restoration of manuscripts;
Centers for the restoration of book monuments: history and modernity.

Within the framework of the conference, there will be a tour of the exhibition “Restoration of Manuscripts of the BAN” based on the materials of the exhibition “The History of Writing from Byzantium to the Old Believers”, which will be held by the head of the NIOR BAN M.V. Korogodina.

As a result of the conference, it is planned to publish a collection of works.

Conference agenda (in Russian).

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The international scientific conference “The History of the Writing of European Civilization” took place in St. Petersburg on October 10-14, 2022. The conference was held as part of the three-year scientific project “The History of the Writing of European Civilization”.

The conference was organized by: St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinsky Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Conference program (in Russian)

The history of the material and formal aspects of written culture has been an area of ​​scientific research for several centuries and remains relevant. St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main organizer of the conference, is the keeper of the most valuable collection of written monuments of European countries and the oldest special center in Russia for their scientific study and publication.

During the scientific meetings of the conference, the tradition of Greek, Latin and Cyrillic writing has been discussed, taking into account the results of recent research in Russia and abroad, it was supposed to outline the prospects for studying the history of writing and written monuments.

Within the framework of the II International St. Petersburg Historical Forum, on October 11-12, 2022, the All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “USSR in the 1970s: results of development and prospects (on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Constitution of the USSR of 1977)” was held, organized by St. Petersburg Institute history of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg and the scientific seminar “History of the Soviet era” (SPbIH RAS).

The conference aimed to discuss the following subjects:
– The social system of the USSR: politics, economics, social development and culture
– Foreign policy of the USSR
– State and personality: rights and obligations. Justice in the USSR
– The national-state structure of the Soviet Union
– Higher and local authorities and administrations
– The role of the CPSU in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
– Soviet symbols and rituals.

24 participants spoke at the conference, including historians from Belarus (Minsk) and different cities of Russia (Arkhangelsk, Moscow, Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Simferopol, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk).

In the reports and in the course of their discussion, the problems of the political and economic life of the Soviet state in the 1970s, the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, interethnic relations and social policy in the context of the USSR in the 1970s were raised.

Close attention was paid to the urgent reasons for changing the Constitution of the USSR of 1936, various aspects of foreign policy and the economic realities of the 1970s, which caused changes in the behavior of political elites and the rhetoric of public speeches. Numerous questions were raised by reports on the budgetary policy of the Soviet Union, the foreign trade of the USSR, and campaigns to streamline the use of official cars. A lively discussion unfolded around the concepts of “Soviet people”, “Soviet people”, “Soviet people”.