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The first volume of multivolume work “The First World War and the end of the Russian Empire”. Publishing house “Liki Rossii” issued “Political history” “The First World War and the end of the Russian Empire”. Centenary of the World War I (194-1918) has been marked by a lot of conferences, publications and research works. This…
Of blessed memory…
Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS suffered an irreparable loss. One of the most outstanding scholars of the Institute Boris Vasilievich Ananich died on July 20, 2015 in the age of 84 years. Boris Vasilievich has worked in SPbIH since 1956. Being a striking representative and a passionate patriot of the Petersburg school…
New book
The publishing house of Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University issued publication composed by G.M. Kovalenko “The town of “Hanseatic memories”. Novgorod in the view of German travelers of the 17th-19th centuries”. Hanseatic background of Novgorod is a part of its myth. This book presents the reader with the descriptions of Novgorod from the writings…
Smirnov Nikolai Nikolaevich
(born April 6, 1952 in Dushanbe) 1970—1976 — Leningrad State University, Faculty of History. 1975—1977 — senior research fellow, State Museum of History of Leningrad. 11.1977—11.1980 — post-graduate student, Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 12.1980— till nowadays — Saint Petersburg Institute of…
International conference timed to 350-year anniversary of Peter the Great
On October 3-5, 2022, St. Petersburg will host the international scientific conference “Peter the Great and the Formation of Russian Science”, which is included in the “Plan of the main events for the preparation and holding of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter I”. The conference was organized by the…
New textbook
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…