The Presidential Library to discuss commercial relations between Russia and China in the XVII-XIX centuries online

9 September 2020

On September 9, 2020, at 10:00 (Moscow time), the Presidential Library will broadcast an online video lecture "Commercial relations between Russia and China in the XVII-XIX centuries" from the series "Knowledge of Russia". The event was organized jointly with the National Library of the Republic of Buryatia (Ulan-Ude).

The video lecture is available for anyone. The meeting will be held online and will be broadcasted on the Presidential Library's portal in the Live broadcasts section according to the program of scheduled events, on the institution's YouTube channel, and also on the page on the VKontakte social network.

Alexey Tivanenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief editor of the interregional local history magazine of Transbaikalia "Bargudzhin-Tukum", author of more than 100 books and about 5 thousand articles on local history will participate in the event via video-conference. He will tell about the beginning and development of the commercial ties of Russia and China, difficulties the countries had to face, and analyze how the signing of the Treaty of Nerchinsk and the Treaty of Kyakhta influenced commercial relations.

One of the main activities of the Presidential Library is the digital preservation of the most important documents on the history, theory and practice of Russian statehood. The institution's collections feature a large number of digital copies of unique materials dedicated to Russian-Chinese relations. The most interesting publications to readers and researchers are documents about the former Russian naval base in China on the Yellow Sea - the port city of Port Arthur, which played a great strategic role in the Russo-Japanese War. For example, the Presidential Library contains memoirs of the participants of the Russian-Japanese War. There are books - "At the Positions of Port Arthur" (1907) by Alexander Golitsinsky, and "Fight for Port Arthur" (1907) by Alexei Schwartz and Georgy Romanovsky. The publications are available on the Presidential Library's portal, as well as at the institution's the electronic reading room at Senate Square, 3 (Saint-Petersburg) and at any Remote Reading Room located in all regions of Russia and 30 foreign countries, which number exceeds 1,000.

The Presidential Library regularly provides interactive lessons and video lectures. Detailed information is available on the institution's portal in Multimedia lessons and Video lectures for school sections, which releases records of lectures and open lessons of the Presidential Library.