The Presidential Library’s video lecture devoted to the famous scientist Ruslan Skrynnikov

9 December 2022

On December 9, 2022 the Presidential Library hosted a video lecture from the cycle Outstanding Historians of the 19th–20th Centuries as part of the Knowledge of Russia project devoted to the memory of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Ruslan Skrynnikov. The event was held in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

During the lecture, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Ancient History of Russia of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pavel Sedov told about the contribution of Ruslan Skrynnikov to Russian historical science and shared his memories of the outstanding scientist who was his teacher and mentor.

Ruslan Skrynnikov is the author of numerous monographs and research papers on the history of Russia in the 16th–17th centuries, as well as textbooks on Russian history. Among his works are such works as The Beginning of the Oprichnina (1966), Russia on the Eve of the Time of Troubles (1981), Yermak's Siberian Expedition (1982), The Socio-Political Struggle in the Russian State at the Beginning of the 17th Century (1985), Duel of Pushkin (1999) and a number of others.

The video lecture Ruslan Grigoryevich Skrynnikov and Problems of National History is available on the institution’s Rutube-channel.

The Presidential Library, having the status of the National Library of Russia, is a nationwide electronic repository of digital copies of the most important documents on the history, theory and practice of Russian statehood, the Russian language, and also a multimedia, multifunctional, cultural, educational, scientific, information and analytical center.

The institution’s portal features the collection Academy of Sciences and the Formation of Russian Science. It includes archive documents, research papers, visual materials, periodicals as well as works of members of the Academy of Sciences.