Polish St. Petersburg – a myth or reality? Poles on the Neva River – is their work worth documenting? How to write a common history: Poles and Russians on the challenges of modern times. Is history a key or rather an obstacle towards the mutual understanding?
Meeting devoted to the presentation of the encyclopedic portal and created in 2015 by the International Cultural Centre (ICC) in Krakow, with the cooperation of the Dmitry Likhachov’s St. Petersburg International Charity Foundation.
Following creators and co-authors of the encyclopedic portal attended the presentation:
dr Mikołaj Banaszkiewicz
the scientific editor of the encyclopedia, historian and scientist specializing in Russia; graduate of the Jagiellonian University. His main interests are the Russian reform traditions, the history of pre-revolutionary Russian liberalism (political thought and historiography) and the so-called second-degree history (Russian "memory nodes"). Banaszkiewicz works in the review section of the journal New Eastern Europe.
dr Beata Nykiel
the scientific editor of the encyclopedia, historian; graduate of the Jagiellonian University and Historical Department of Bilkent University in Ankara (PhD), scholarship holder of the Lanckoronski Foundation. Deputy Director of the Institute of European Heritage in ICC, where she coordinates projects related to Eastern European countries.
Agata Wąsowska-Pawlik
an art historian; graduate of the Jagiellonian University, scholarship holder of the Catholic University in Leuven, 1997, the US Department of State, 2004 and Tokyo University for Foreign Studies, 2017. She is a deputy director of the ICC Program Affairs and she is responsible for the international cooperation, among others in the field of managing cultural heritage institutions and organizing exhibition in the museum. A member of the Association of Art Historians, Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa [Society of History and Monuments Admirers of Krakow], the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and since 2013 she has been a member of the Council of the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow.
Ewa Ziółkowska
a cultural historian, graduate of the University of Warsaw, vice president of the board of the Foundation "Aid to Poles in the East", member of the jury of the Przegląd Wschodni [Eastern Review] award. She is an author of many publications on Poles in the East, including Petersburg po polsku [St. Petersburg in Polish] (Świat Książki, 2011).
dr Hieronim Grala
a historian and diplomat, an employee of the Artes Liberales Faculty of the University of Warsaw; the Head of the Polono-Russica Commission (ibidem). Grala is a member of the Polish and Russian Historians’ Committee; publisher and editor-in-chief of the series Памятники истории Восточной Европы. Источники XV-XVII вв. [Pamyatniki istorii Vostochnoy Yevropy. Istochniki XV-XVII vv] (Warsaw-Moscow); Honorary Professor of the Moscow Academy of Economics and Law (MAEL), a member of the Committee of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.