Ancient historians as a rule didn't entitle their own works. Those titles appear over time as a result of the work of grammarians or are found as such in the works of authors of later times. First of all that practice could be applied to the works that were written in Greek and native language by early Roman historians. On the basis of the study in the possible titles of those works – historia, annalles, res gestae – the issue of their genre is raised, judging by the content of the terms that denoted those works. Their terminological analysis led to the following conclusions: in the process of the formation of the annalistic narration as a form of account about the past, the "annals" began to be distinguished from the "history" as a work in which events contemporary to the author were represented. On the contrary the content of the term res gestae was close to what the Greeks called historia.
The article describes the life path and analyzes academic achievements of a prominent Russian scholar, historian, member of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences, professor of the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University Valery Evgenyevich Vozgrin (1939–2020). The works of V.E.Vozgrin are well known in all Scandinavian countries, Germany, Italy, Spain, Estonia and other countries. The authors of the article highlight three main areas in his study of the history of the Scandinavian countries: first — the history of diplomacy and international relations of the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly, the diplomacy during the Great Northern War; second — the colonial policy of the countries such as Denmark and Sweden, which has never been researched by domestic historians; third — historiographic direction in the study of Scandinavian countries, which has never been developed on such a large scale in Russia before. Moreover, the analysis of a number of large historiographical works of the researcher clearly indicates an original style of the author in considering some little-known and very complex historiographic problems. The article concludes that the research base established by professor Vozgrin for studying the history of the Scandinavian countries has laid a solid foundation for further examination of the history of the Nordic countries as well as for Scandinavistics in St. Petersburg to whose development V.Vozgrin made a considerable contribution.
The article addresses the life and tortuous scientific career of the undeservedly forgotten historian and archaeographer N. A. Voskresenskiy, who worked during the extremely difficult interwar period. Nikolay Voskresenskiy, a teacher by training, became an ardent admirer of Peter the Great's statebuilding and legislative activity. Conducting research on an unprecedented scale, he discovered, analyzed and prepared for print archive documents on the history of the legislative process in Russia during the first quarter of the 18th century. In spite of his enthusiastic research and life-long devotion to science, N. A. Voskresenskiy was for a long time deliberately shunned by the scientific community, and had to work in isolation. Only late in his life was N. A. Voskresenskiy accepted by his fellow law historians. Boris Syromiatnikov, who helped ensure that the "Legislative Acts of Peter I" was eventually published, played a particularly decisive role in the fate of Nikolay Voskresenskiy. Our article, based on archival data, clarifies the circumstances in which Nikolay Voskresenskiy defended his 'Candidate of Science' dissertation, and his preparation of his doctoral dissertation entitled "Peter the Great as a Legislator." Several facts which shed light on the negative role played by Alexander Andreev in the destiny of Voskresenskiy are also uncovered. Voskresenskiy was subjected to persistent and groundless allegations of incompetency throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, as a result of which most of his research remained unpublished. ; Представлен систематический обзор биографии, а также ученых изысканий и публикаторской деятельности Н. А. Воскресенского – незаслуженно забытого российского историка и археографа второй четверти ХХ в. Проникшись пиететным отношением к государственной деятельности Петра I, педагог по образованию Николай Воскресенский предпринял уникальные по масштабу усилия по выявлению, анализу и подготовке к печати архивных документов по истории законотворческого процесса России первой четверти XVIII в. Несмотря на подвижнические исследовательские труды, Н. А. Воскресенский длительное время целенаправленно отторгался академическим сообществом историков, был вынужден работать в творческой изоляции. Лишь на позднем этапе жизненного пути Николай Алексеевич оказался интегрирован в среду правоведов. Наиболее позитивную роль в судьбе историка сыграл Борис Сыромятников, благодаря поддержке которого были опубликованы знаменитые Законодательные акты Петра I. На основании архивных данных освещены обстоятельства защиты Николаем Воскресенским кандидатской диссертации и подготовки докторской диссертации. Приведены факты негативной роли Александра Андреева и необоснованности обвинений Воскресенского на протяжении 1920–1940-х гг. в непрофессионализме, в результате чего большая часть научного наследия Н. А. Воскресенского осталась неизданной.
