История (9 класс)

The collection is dedicated to the causes, course and results of the Crimean War. It includes a whole range of historical evidence: research studies, memoirs, compilations, reports (of the Tauride Scientific Archival Commission and the Commission for Inquiry on Abuses in the Quartermaster), essays, works of art, archival documents, collections of marine periodicals, cartographic, visual, multimedia materials.

The collection is devoted to the 250th birth anniversary of the famous Russian historian, writer, publicist Nikolay Karamzin. It features research, essays and archival documents about the life and work of Karamzin; his literary and scientific heritage, including his main work History of the Russian State; correspondence; video lectures revealing the collections of various libraries related to Nikolay Karamzin; projects and photographs of monuments.

The collection includes publications of the Archaeographic Commission (1836—1931), amassed basing on the analysis of bibliographic indexes and stocks of the major Russian libraries. These documents have not lost their relevance and scientific value until now, taking into account that many sources were published only in the editions of the Archaeographic Commission.

The collection dedicated to Pyotr Kireevsky (1808-1856) - the folklorist, collector of folk poetry, specialist in archaeography and publicist – is built up of publications about his life and work, as well as a posthumous series of books featuring songs collected by P. Kireevsky that was commissioned by the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature.

The collection, timed to the 225th birth anniversary of an outstanding Russian astronomer of German descent, a member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the founder and the first director of the Pulkovo Observatory, includes archival materials and scientific research on the life and scientific work of Vasily Yakovlevich Struve and his family.

The collection is timed to coincide with the 215th anniversary of the birth of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, the first Russia classical composer, founder of the Russian national school of the world opera. The collection contains electronic copies of books, brochures, archive documents and visual materials focused on the composer’s life and work.

The Senate Square is one of the oldest in St. Petersburg. It began to take shape in 1704 and at first was just an earth embankment in front of the Admiralty.

The collection dedicated to Saint Isaac’s Cathedral consists of descriptions of the church, archival documents (including plans and technical drawings), which spotlight the history of its construction and activities, as well as visual materials featuring views of the cathedral in different historical periods.

February 19 (March 3 new style), 1861 Emperor Alexander II signed the ‘Manifesto on the Imperial donation of rights of free villagers to serfs’ and the ‘General Regulations on peasants emancipated from serfdom.’ As a result, over 20 million serfs gained freedom. The collection, covering this event includes editions which reflect the history of peasant question in Russia, elaboration and implementation of the Emancipation Reform, personalities of reformers, as well as essential legislative documents of the reform, memoirs of contemporaries and journalistic works on the peasant question.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the judicial reform, which was intended to provide a fast, fair and merciful justice to all Russian citizens, the Presidential Library makes available to a comprehensive collection of sources on the history of elaboration and introduction of the legislative reform in the Russian Empire, which were previously almost inaccessible.

The collection is dedicated to the life, military and civil service, community service and scientific work of an outstanding statesman of the Russian Empire Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky. An assembling of the collection is coincides with two related to mister Muravyov commemorative dates at once − the 220th anniversary of his birth and the 150 years from his death.

The collection dedicated to the outstanding statesman of the Russian Empire Alexander Gorchakov features archival materials (the draft on the emancipation of serfs, correspondence on the sale of Alaska etc.), scientific research on education of Prince Gorchakov at the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo and Russia’s foreign policy in the second half of the 19th c., as well as visual materials and a documentary.

Featured collection includes the archival materials and the studies that tell about the North American territories that were part of the Russian Empire in the XVIII and the XIX centuries, a history of their discovery and development, the activities of the Russian-American Company and the Russian Orthodox Church in North America.

The set of documents covering the campaign of 1860s of two Russian cruiser squadrons under the command of Rear-Admirals S. S. Lesovsky and A. A. Popov to the shores of the United States, includes some articles and reviews published in the national press from the time when the event took place to the present, as well as an essay published by the US Naval historical Foundation.

The collection featuring Konstantin Pobedonostsev, major statesman, legal scholar, chief procurator of the Holy Synod, founder of the system of parochial and non-classical secondary schools in Russia includes archival materials (diaries, memos, drafts, correspondence, biographical materials), humbly reports of Pobedonostsev in office of the chief procurator and his scientific works.

The collection is dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the West-Siberian Railway - one of the leading steel highways of Russia, which connects the railways of Eastern Siberia with the roads of the Urals and the European part of Russia, it organizes the transportation of transit cargo and passenger traffic in five subjects of the Russian Federation: the Omsk, the Novosibirsk , the Kemerovo and the Tomsk regions and the Altai territory, and partly on the territory of Kazakhstan.

The collection, which is dedicated to the renowned Russian chemist and thinker Dmitri Mendeleev, includes his works, correspondence; archival documents about his relatives, scientific, educational and public activities; 20th-century studies, which spotlight Dmitri Mendeleev’s scientific heritage, and visual materials.

The collection marking the 195th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian geographer, traveler, statesman and public figure P. P. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky features his memoirs, archival documents about his service activities, video recordings, and visual materials. Of particular importance are the scientist's research, as well as fundamental works on geography and statistics, compiled under his editorship (multi-volume works "Geography of Asia", "Geographical and Statistical Dictionary of the Russian Empire", "Picturesque Russia", "Russia").

The digital collection is built of the archival documents, reflecting various aspects of the accomplishments of the Russian Historical Society, of the materials from the individual archive its chairman, the Secretary of State and a member of the National Council A. A. Polovtsov. A full set of collected works released by the society during its existence is also included.

The Imperial Archaeological Commission was founded on February 15, 1859 by Alexander II. It existed until 1919, when its functions were entrusted to the Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture. The commission became the first state archaeological institution in the country. The practices of the Commission formed the basis of the modern regulation of archaeological research and the system of protection of monuments in Russia. The collection, dedicated to the 160th anniversary of its foundation, includes publications of the commission, as well as archival documents on its establishment and development.

The collection dedicated to the 190th anniversary of the birth of a prominent historian, the creator of original historical concepts and the author of the most stable pre-revolutionary  history textbooks Dmitry Ilovaisky is based on the documents of the personal collections of the Russian State Historical Archives arranged by themes - materials about the life of the historian, his scientific and publishing activities, correspondence and photographs. The "Works" section features extensive collection of his scientific works, textbooks, articles, reviews on them and discussions of Ilovaisky with other historians.

The collection, timed to coincide with the 175th anniversary of an outstanding Russian lawyer Fyodor Nikiforovich Plevako, contains various information about him, his speeches, content of particular cases and his correspondence.

The collection is devoted to the 200th anniversary of Sergey Solovyov (1820-1879), the outstanding Russian historian, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. It features biographical research, documents about his career, various editions of History of Russia from the Earliest Times and other works, as well as documents on the founding of a Solovyov's scholarship at the St. Vladimir University.

The collection, which is built up ahead of the 175th anniversary of the birth of the Russian artist Ilya Repin, consists of electronic copies of books, archival documents, articles from periodicals, which are devoted to the life and work of the artist, as well as reproductions of his paintings.

The collection featuring Konstantin Pobedonostsev, major statesman, legal scholar, chief procurator of the Holy Synod, founder of the system of parochial and non-classical secondary schools in Russia includes archival materials (diaries, memos, drafts, correspondence, biographical materials), humbly reports of Pobedonostsev in office of the chief procurator and his scientific works.

The collection dedicated to the First General Census of the Russian Empire includes materials about the preparation and holding of the census and its results for various regions and individual groups of the population.

A series of turbulent events of the 20th century began for Russia from a war far in the east. Japan, which unleashed the war, blockaded and besieged Port Arthur, the main base of Russian naval forces in the Pacific. The defense and the subsequent surrender of the fortress became a tragic symbol of the war. Military setbacks, the largest of which were the overland Battle of Mukden and the Tsushima Naval Battle, the name of which became common, were one of the causes of the revolution of 1905-1907 forcing the Russian part to agree to a compromise and sign a peace treaty. The local war turned for Russia into the loss of the entire Navy and the loss of strategic positions in the Far East.

The collection marks the 115th anniversary of the First Duma of the Russian Empire. It comprises the constituent documents, archival materials, political writings, research, verbatim records of meetings, reviews of activities and illustrative materials.