What took place during the intense years 1850-1918 when Russia was the great market that attracted entrepreneurs and fortune seekers to start companies in the Tsarist empire? Where can the source material about this exciting period be found and what happened to the companies and people when the revolution struck? About fifty participants from Russia, Sweden, and Germany gathered at the Literary Academy's premises in Stockholm to discuss just this. Unique material on Swedish-Russian relations at the beginning of the 20th century was presented during the symposium.
Location: Royal Academy of Letters, Villagatan 3
Date and Time: Monday, November 18, 0830–1630
Conference Languages: English and Russian
Symposium Chairs: Erik Norberg, former national archivist, Thomas Tydén, professor,
chairman of the Nobel family association
Foreign symposium speakers: professor Leonid Borodkin, Moscow State University, associate professor Marina Chichuga, Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow, archivist Antonina Dolganova, Central State Historical Archives of St. Petersburg, archive director Reinhardt Frost, Deutsche Bank AG, Historical Institute, Frankfurt am Main, professor Andrey Markevich, New Economic School, Moscow and senior archivist Mikhail Shkarovsky, Central State Archives of St. Petersburg.
Co-financiers of the project are the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.
For questions about the symposium, contact CfN's CEO Alexander Husebye: 08-634 99 14, 0706-47 73 47.
