Izvestiya of Saratov University.
History. International Relations
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)

Санкт-Петербург

V. Ya. Bogucharsky’s activity on the creation of the L. N. Tolstoy Museum in St. Petersburg

The article examines the participation of the pre-revolutionary historian, publicist and public figure V. Ya. Bogucharsky in the creation of the Leo Tolstoy Museum in St. Petersburg. This event was timed to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of the great Russian writer.

Деятельность В. Я. Богучарского по созданию музея имени Л. Н. Толстого в Санкт-Петербурге

В статье рассматривается участие дореволюционного историка, публициста и общественного деятеля В. Я. Богучарского в создании музея Л. Н. Толстого в Санкт-Петербурге. Это событие было приурочено к восьмидесятилетнему юбилею великого русского писателя.

Involvement of Garrison Soldiers into Construction Works in Kronstadt and St. Petersburg in the 1710s and 1720s

The article deals with the question of involving soldiers of garrison regiments to build fortifications in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt in the first third of the 18th century. Soldiers were recruited on the island of Kotlin in the 1710s, when large-scale construction works were launched there. The service- men did not perform hard tasks. Their number, compared with the total number of working people at that time was small.