The Presidential Library’s video lecture told about the outstanding historian Viktor Paneyakh

The Presidential Library hosted a video lecture dedicated to the historian Viktor Paneyakh (1930–2017) as part of the Knowledge of Russia project. The lecture continued the series Outstanding Historians of the 19th-20th Centuries which the Presidential Library is conducting jointly with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

Viktor Paneyakh is an outstanding historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, a representative of a brilliant generation of employees of the Leningrad branch of the USSR Institute of History, who entered science in the second half of the 1950s. He is the largest specialist in the history of servility in Muscovite Russia, the author of books and articles on this subject. In the last period of his life, the scientist devoted himself to historiography and the history of science, was engaged in research and publication of materials from the high-profile political process "Academic Affairs" (1929-1931), was the organizer and first dean of the Faculty of History of the European University in St. Petersburg.

At the video lecture, Varvara Vovina, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences for scientific cooperation, shared her memories of Viktor Paneyakh, who told about the contribution of her teacher to the development of Russian historical science.

The daughter of a scientist, head of the Scientific Library Department of the State Museum of the History of Religion, Alla Paneyakh, presented unique photographs from her personal archive to the video lecture participants.

The meeting is available on the institution's YouTube channel.

Cooperation between the Presidential Library and the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is actively developing. In 2019 a joint series of lectures was held on the territories of Russia as part of the Russian Empire. They are available on the Presidential Library’s portal.

The Presidential Library regularly holds interactive lessons and video lectures, detailed information about which is available on the institution's portal in the Multimedia Lessons section and in the Video lecture for school heading. There are also available video recordings of lectures and open lessons.