In a programmatic 1986 article, Robert Darnton argued that the study of reading must focus on the social context in which texts function and are received. The historian argued that books not only reflect historical processes but also create them, serving as a medium for social interaction among the participants in the communications circuit: readers, publishers, and booksellers (Darnton R., 1986).

Episode 17 of the "Parties of the Line" podcast continues the story of the graphic legacy of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens in the Hermitage.

The 16th episode of the podcast "The Party of the Line: Drawings by Old and New Masters" is dedicated to the graphic legacy of Peter Paul Rubens. The Hermitage Museum holds an exceptionally comprehensive collection of original sheets by the Flemish artist. The podcast focuses primarily on drawings related to Rubens's engagement with ancient monuments.

The 15th episode of the podcast "The Party of the Line" is entirely dedicated to the drawing techniques practiced in Italy during the Renaissance. Alexey Larionov's guest is Elena Shishkova, Head of the Laboratory for Scientific Restoration of Oriental Painting at the State Hermitage Museum and a top-category art restorer specializing in graphic works.

The five-week festival will transform Liteiny Prospect and its surroundings into a unified literary space, with the university, museums, bookstores, galleries, and culinary venues becoming stops along a route showcasing hubs of contemporary book culture.

The exhibition was organized by the football club team together with the Planet 9 museum bureau.

The study was conducted by the European University's Laboratory of Palaeogenomics in collaboration with Genotek and is based on materials from the Hermitage's archaeological expeditions.

The samples were collected as part of a research project of the European University at St. Petersburg. The project’s goal is to study and reconstruct details of the genetic history of Scythian-type nomads in the Tuva Republic’s “Valley of the Kings”.

Researchers from the European University at St. Petersburg, the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Hermitage Museum conducted the first series of experiments on DNA isolation from historical samples in the clean rooms of the paleogenomics laboratory located at the Solopharm pharmaceutical plant.

European University researchers Artem Nedoluzhko and Fyodor Sharko as lead authors have published an article in the prestigious international journal European Journal of Human Genetics (Q1, impact factor: 5.2). Together with Russian colleagues, they analyzed nuclear DNA from the remains of five representatives of the Koban archaeological culture.

Svetlana Pankova, a researcher at the Laboratory of Paleogenomics of the European University and curator of the Department of Archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia of the State Hermitage Museum, spoke at the international scientific conference "Singing Arrows of Maodun": Hunnu from obscurity to empire", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Sergey Minyaev’s birth (1948-2020).

The Oxford Art Journal published an article “Impressionism in the Land of the Bolsheviks: Questions of Art, Reality, and Ideology in the Interwar Soviet Union” by Ilia Doronchenkov, professor at the EUSP School of Arts and Cultural Heritage, Deputy Director in charge of research at the Pushkin Museum.

Artem Nedoluzhko, Development Director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, has joined the editorial board of the journals Frontier in Genetics (Q2, impact factor: 4.77) and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Q1, impact factor: 4.49), published by Frontiers. 

Date: 27-28 April 2023; European University at Saint Petersburg The conference will be held in mixed format: via Zoom and in person at the European University at Saint Petersburg.

The European University at St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum open the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. The school will combine master's degrees in the history of art and philology, as well as a professional retraining program "The Modern Museum: Management Methods, Practices of Cultural Interpretation".

On the 30th and 31st of March 2022, the international conference ''Esotericism and Russian literature'' will take place. It will explore a complex variety of relations between Russian literature and esotericism.

The European University at St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum create the International School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. The project will bring together a world-class museum, an advanced center of scholarship and education, and an innovative industry.

In the eighteenth century, Russia emerged as a truly European power. Yet despite the presence of Russians in Europe and Europeans in Russia, the vast Russian Empire continued to be perceived as a quasi-oriental land. As a result, those artists and works of art that moved from West to East were – and sometimes still are — all too often seen as vanishing into a distant realm. This panel will highlight current research on the Russian art world and its engagement with Western Europe in the eighteenth century. Short presentations will examine the importance of the French tradition to St. Petersburg’s Imperial Academy of Arts, Russian artists’ travel to the Netherlands and Paris, Russian patronage of Venetian art, connections between Russian and British art as reflected in portraits by Rokotov and Gainsborough, and Russian collecting of classical antiquities.

The project Open Database of Interdisciplinary Art in Russia (MIR) announces call for papers for online conference “Exploring the Unconventional: Ways to Address the Intersections of  Art, Science, and Technology”.

Vladlena Gromova. Introductory word on the project Open Database of Interdisciplinary Art in Russia