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“Autograph of History”. The only manuscript of Dante in Russian archives
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To the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Table of Ranks
To the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Table of Ranks Established three hundred years ago – January 24 (February 4), 1722 – by decree of Emperor Peter I, the “Table of Ranks” for almost 200 years until November 1917 determined not only the order of public service but also the system of social…
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Interregional scientific and practical conference “Civil Servants of Russia in Past and Present: Regional Aspect”
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The publishing hoouse of the European University in St. Petersburg issued the collection of articles “Patriotic Cultures during the First World War” [“Kultury patriotizma v period Pervoi mirovoi voiny”] /ed. by K.A. Tarasov, composition and preface by B.I. Kolonitskii. ISBN 978-5-94380-285-0 This book is a collection of articles based on the reports delivered at the conference which took…