The Saint Petersburg Institute of History is a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of Russian and foreign history. It is part of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The organization is located in the estate of N. P. Likhachyov in Saint Petersburg, where he lived from 1902 to 1936, so the institute is also known as the "Likhachyov Mansion". As a research center, the institute continues the traditions of the St. Petersburg historical school, established by K. Bestuzhev-Ryumin, S. Platonov, A. Lappo-Danilevsky, A. Presnyakov and others.
- Country
- Russia, Soviet Union
- Inception
- 1936
- Website
- http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru/