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Center for the Study of the Islamic Republic Iran St. Petersburg State University “Collegium Iranicum”

April 15, 2021

In the frameworkof the RSF project “Documentary History of the Russian Strand of Safavid Diplomacy (1501-1722)” (№ 18-78-10052, headed by Vladimir Shorokhov) International scientific online-seminar “Safavid State and Russian Tsardom at the Premodern age” was run online via “Zoom Cloud Meetings”. The event was organized by the scholars from the departments of regional studies, Iranian philology and ethnopolitics of SPbU. Among the participants of the meeting there were representatives of the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies (Uzbekistan), Tehran University (Iran), Bukhara State University (Uzbekistan), Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tarbiat Modares Univerity (Iran), Comenius University (Slovakia) and Cambridge University (UK).

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The forum started with salutary addresses of the the SPbU Deputy Rector for International Affairs Sergey Andryushin and the provost of the Tashkent state oriental university Elyor Mahmudov. Lively discussions were spaked by the controversies between Russian and Iranian historiographies on the reasons for the first Safavid ambassades to Moscow, as long as on the issues of the Russo-Safavid frontier, social and economic history of Iranian diplomatic missions and the vision of the nexus of relations between Russia, Iran, Khwarezm and Transoxiana.

Summarizing the meeting results its participants gave voice to the general opinion that an offline international conference of a greater scale should follow.

April 2019

Webinar set by the lecturers from the University Allame Tabatabai for the students of St. Petersburg State University arranged by E.P. Pischurnikova

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11/19.-11/23/2018

Workshop on paleography (based on the Iranian and Ottoman diplomacy) by O.M. Yastrebova in co-operation with Fathollah Zougi, an employee of the Islamic Culture Research Foundation Ibn Sino.

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