The Presidential Library’s video lecture devoted to famous historian Boris Ananyich

On May 6, 2022 the Presidential Library hosted a video lecture dedicated to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Boris Ananyich as part of the Knowledge of Russia project. The event, organized jointly with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was the fourth in the series of lectures "Outstanding Historians of the 19th-20th Centuries".

The authoritative scientist Boris Vasilyevich Ananyich (1931–2015) was born in Leningrad. He was a major specialist in the economic history of Russia, one of the best experts in the history of Russian finance at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and one of the pioneers of modern study of the history of Russian private entrepreneurship. For almost 60 years he worked at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now St. Petersburg Institute of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences) and for more than 4 decades he taught at the Faculty of History of Leningrad State University (today St. Petersburg State University). In student circles, Ananyich spoke with great respect, invariably adding that "he will have to work much".

Sergey Lebedev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the New History of Russia Department of the RAS, attended the video lecture entitled “Politics and Economics of the Russian Empire in the Works of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Ananyich”. He talked about the legacy of the scientist analyzing his main works.

The academician's daughter, Deputy Head of the Department of the Ancient World of the State Hermitage, Elena Ananyich, shared her memories of her father.

The event is available on the institution's Rutube-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 series of six lectures devoted to the territories of Russia as part of the Russian Empire was held. They are available on the Presidential Library’s portal.

Interactive lessons and video lectures are regularly held at the Presidential Library. Detailed information is available on the institution's portal in Multimedia Lessons section and in the Video lecture - for school section which features records of lectures and open lessons held at the Presidential Library.