The history of relations between Russia and Poland spotlighted in the video lecture of the Presidential Library

November 14, 2019, at 11:00 the Presidential Library will host the next video lecture “Regions of the Russian State of the 18th - early 20th centuries”, prepared jointly with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The event dedicated to the Kingdom of Poland within the Russian Empire will be available live on the Presidential Library’s portal, in the official group on the VKontakte social network and on the institution’s YouTube channel.

Leonid Gusman - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, in his speech will analyze the features of Russian politics in relation to the Kingdom of Poland, talk about the views of various directions of Russian public thought on the “Polish question” and the Polish national movement.

Natalia Eilbart - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian History, Faculty of History and Social Sciences of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, will tell about the fate of the Poles who lived in Siberia in the 19th century - the military, administrators, entrepreneurs, scientists and exiles, about their role in the development and development of this harsh Russian region .

The students of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences of the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia as well as students in schools of St. Petersburg will attend the event.

The Presidential Library’s portal features electronic collection The History of the Kingdom of Poland, which includes rare editions, studies and archival documents. Among them, for example, the guidebook Travel to the Kingdom of Poland and the Republic of Krakow, 1822, Collection of Civil Laws of the Provinces of the Kingdom of Poland, 1877, Warsaw Province. Mountain Plan Warsaw, with the designation of house numbers 1908 and many others.

The accreditation for media representatives is until November 13, 2019 10:00.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached with the note “Media accreditation” to the email addresses: media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru  Alexandra Khudyakova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob.: +7 (981) 788-28-08.

The letter should include the name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers, name of the media.

Please note that admittance to the Presidential Library is possible only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: participants and guests of the event go through entrance №1, media representatives go through entrance №2.