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ssue 3, 2025, is thematic: it publishes studies on the history of female education in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and modern Russia. This thematic selection of studies is prompted by the 155th anniversary of P.P. Maksimovich's Women's Teacher Training School, the forerunner of Tver State University, which will be celebrated in 2025.

An article by Doctor of History A.V. Belova (Tver, Tver State University) is devoted to matriculation into women's institutes in the late 18th to mid-19th centuries. O.A. Valkova (Doctor of History, Moscow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences) examines the role of family in the education of the first Russian female scientists. An article by Doctor of History A.V. Zhidchenko (Moscow, Institute of Economics and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences) describes the daily academic and extracurricular activities of female students at the Omsk Polytechnic Institute. Lisitsyna (PhD, Tver, Tver State University) uses the example of the Moscow nobility to characterize female home education in the first half of the 19th century. N.A. Mitsyuk (Doctor of History, Moscow, Institute of Economics and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences) uses materials from the Smolensk province to illustrate the organization of daily life in girls' gymnasiums in the second half of the 19th century. N.L. Pushkareva (Doctor of History, Moscow, Institute of Economics and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences) presents an overview of the history of single-sex education in Russia over ten centuries. O.I. Sekenova (PhD, Moscow, Institute of Economics and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences) analyzes the organizational challenges of the First All-Russian Congress on Women's Education (1912-1913). A.V. Tsyganova's article (Tver, Tver State University) is devoted to the history of the formation and development of the Tver Mariinsky Girls' Gymnasium.

The "History of Russia" section features research on the history of higher education in the USSR (the history of archaeology teaching at Kalinin State University is explored in an article by E.N. Zhukova (PhD, Tver, Tver State University)) and on the history of local government in the Russian Empire (M.N. Shoshkina (Penza State University) examines the position of the zemstvo district chief using the example of the Penza Governorate).

The "Historiography. Source Studies. Historical Research Methods" section features a study by S.B. Makeeva (Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) on the regional demographic development of the border region of Transbaikalia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The "Graduate Student's Page" section features articles by N.A. Kozlov (on the publication of L. Turkevich's diaries) and E.V. Levina (on memorandum books as a source for studying Baltic settlers in the Pskov province).

V.P. Potamskaya (PhD, Tver, Tver State University) discusses C. Skinner's approach to interpreting early modern thought.

The section "Criticism. Bibliography. Scholarly Life" presents a historical review dedicated to the V.V. Bolotov Center for Church History and Orthodox Culture (author: Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor T.G. Leontyeva).

Issue 2 for 2025 features articles by research fellows and postgraduate students devoted to the study of the history of the Russian Revolution (Historical Doctor V.P. Buldakov), discussions about the political and legal status of Finland in the Russian Empire (Historical Candidate D.V. Rybin), and the history of urban development in Tver (A.M. Salimov).

The "Archaeology. Ethnography. Historical Geography" section features selected materials from participants in the 2nd All-Russian (with international participation) scientific conference "Tver Land and Adjacent Territories in Antiquity" (Tver, March 18–21, 2025): an article by T.M. Gusentsova (Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage", St. Petersburg) (co-authored with N.A. Zheltova) is devoted to the complex of stone Eneolithic products of the Podolye 3 site in the southern Priladozhye, the article by D.A. Ivanov (Ryazan Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve) discusses a new settlement monument of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo cultural and historical community in the Ryazan Poochye Fedyakino 3, the study by I.I. Razgildeeva (Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, FEB RAS) is devoted to the resource factors of the territory and their role in the formation of archaeological microdistricts, V.Yu. Suborov (Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University) and colleagues (E.A. Borisevich and T.V. Karpova) are publishing, with commentary, extremely important materials from the archive of Borovichi local historian G.I. Ivanovsky.

The section "Historiography. Source Studies. Historical Research Methods" features an article by V.Yu. Bystryukov, devoted to the presentation of the image of Alexander Nevsky in the concept of the Eurasianists.

An article by graduate student A.S. Karachevtsev (Kursk), published in this issue, examines how the problem of cholera was presented in the provincial Orthodox press.

A report by N.A. Dmitriev (Tver State University) describes the registration files of parishes in the Kalinin Diocese in the post-war period.

The section "Criticism. Bibliography. Scholarly Life" features a remark by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor T.G. Leontyeva on the book “The Second World War in school textbooks of the 20th and 21st centuries: history lessons” (under the general editorship of I.M. Suvorova. Petrozavodsk, PetrSU Publishing House, 2023).

The 1st issue of 2025 publishes articles by researchers and postgraduate students devoted to the history of urban development in Moscow, the history of the development of spiritual education in the Tver diocese, sectarianism in the Tver diocese, the sphere of supervision in the field of spiritual education in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century, the organization of archival affairs in the Kalinin region, the history of the activities of the Tver department of the Imperial Palestine Society, Sofya Kovalevskaya as a historian and writer, the history of the creation of memorial museums in the FRG, political prisoners in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries.

The 4th issue of the journal publishes articles by scholars and postgraduate students from Russia and China on the history of the city of Toropets and the Toropets region, on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, the history of Russia in the 1920s and 1990s, on the history of the activities of the regional department of the society for the blind in the Kalinin region in 1945-1950s, a comparative study of the legal cultures of China and Russia, and on the ethnography of Bulgaria.

The articles of Russian historians, published in the 3rd issue of the magazine for 2024, present the results of research into the biographies of scientists (an article by Candidate of Historical Sciences A.V. Baranova is devoted to the biography of Prince V.N. Tenishev, the work of the famous Soviet archaeologist A.S. Bashkirov at the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute is devoted to the study of Candidate of Historical Sciences E.N. Zhukova), the results of studying the activities of the statutory department All-Russian Local Council (candidate of historical sciences A.I. Mramornov) and the history of the creation of the Valaam monastery (candidate of historical sciences D.A. Begovatov). Article by Ph.D. O.G. Leontyeva is dedicated to dedicatory inscriptions.

The section "General History" publishes articles by Doctor of History. E.V. Litovchenko (the study is devoted to the analysis of the content of three ekphrasis - Sidonius Appolinarius, Avitus of Vienne and Ennodius) and K.A. Petrov (the article deals with the economic and political deprivation of women in postcolonial tropical Africa in the 1980-2000s).

The issue traditionally publishes articles by postgraduate students. They present the results of research in the field of Meseum studies (O.V. Generalova), the study of the religiosity of Soviet women (K.P. Ermochenko), the activities of city government bodies in helping the front during the Russo-Turkish and Russo-Japanese wars, everyday experience in Ireland in the early 2020s (G.A. Snedkov).

The section dedicated to criticism and scientific life publishes a critical note by Doctor of Historical Sciences V.P. Buldakova, dedicated to graphomania and the origin of historiographic myths.

in the 2nd issue of the journal for 2024, articles by researchers from Russia and China (PRC) are published. The articles are devoted to the history of national politics in the USSR (candidate of historical sciences L.S. Gatagova), students of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute - participants of the Great Patriotic War (doctor of historical sciences A.M. Ermakov), the history of the Main Directorate for Press Affairs of the Russian Empire (candidate of historical sciences E.N. Krylova), the history of spiritual education in the Russian Empire (candidate of historical sciences Yu.A. Safronov), the history of Buddhist communities in Russia in the 1920s. (Ph.D. A.V. Sipeikin), a study of economic activity in the Belsky district of the Moscow State in the 17th century. (Ph.D. Yu.V. Stepanova).

In the article Ph.D. L.A. Bolokina presents a review of documents from the personal collection of Sh.Z. Golubkin, a Soviet civil servant and participant in the partisan movement.

The issue traditionally publishes articles by postgraduate students. They present the results of research into the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland in the late 19th - first half of the 20th century (A.V. Kovalev), the history of theological education in the Tver diocese in the second half of the 18th century (A.V. Kroshkin). An article by a postgraduate student from China shows the evolution of attitudes toward women in Chinese families from 1900 to 1950.

The first issue of the journal for 2024 publishes articles by Russian historians. The article by Doctor of Historical Sciences N.L. Pushkareva shows the life path of the first Russian traveler A.G. Kudasheva, the article by Doctor of Historical Sciences P.G. Rogozny shows the evolution of civil marriage during the Civil War, the article by Candidate of Historical Sciences D.V. Rybin shows the fate of legalists and legalist roganitsy at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, A.I. Savinova shows the use of cadastral materials in studying the history of the settlement of the Karelians, the article by Candidate of Historical Sciences Yu.N. Zelenskaya shows the role of the Kirov Railway in transporting imported goods during the Great Patriotic War, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences O.A. Panova traces the government policy in the field of primary school in the 1860-1870s. The issue traditionally publishes articles by postgraduate students. They present an analysis of the history of the study of the material situation of the Russian Orthodox Church (N.A. Kozlov), the results of studies of the history of Soviet cinema during the perestroika period (A.D. Moiseenko) and rural settlement in the Staritsky Volga region in the 14th-17th centuries (L.B. Molotilov).

In the section dedicated to scientific life, PhD in History E.V. Lagutkina presented an overview of the archaeological forum "Tver Land and Adjacent Territories in Antiquity" held in March 2024 at the History Department of Tver State University.

The 4th issue of the journal for 2023 publishes articles by Russian historians, which present the results of research into public sentiment in Russia on the eve of the First World War (Doctor of Historical Sciences V.B. Aksyonov), events in the Russian Federation in the fall of 1993 (Doctor of Historical Sciences F.V. Malkhozova), the activities of A.N. Vershinsky to collect evidence of the genocide of Russians by the Nazi invaders during the occupation of the Kalinin region (Candidate of Historical Sciences K.M. Svirin), the history of the baptism of Korela in the first third of the 13th century (Candidate of Historical Sciences B.I. Chibisov), and changes in the position of the nobility in the context of everyday life in Russia in the late 18th - early 20th centuries. (PhD V.A. Shapovalov), theoretical aspects of the deposition of the sovereign in medieval political thought (PhD A.K. Gladkov), the history of the Feodorovsky Monastery in Tver (PhD G.S. Gadalova).

The "Archaeology" section publishes an article by L.M. Ilyasov devoted to the study of the sacred meaning of the cross in the petroglyphs of Chechnya.

The issue traditionally publishes articles by postgraduate students. They present the results of research into monastic land ownership in the Rzhevsky district of the Moscow state in the 15th - first half of the 17th centuries (V.O. Bogdanov), land relations in the Novgorod land in the 14th-17th centuries (N.D. Meneleev), the scientific heritage of E.P. Blavatsky (O.A. Mendeleyev)

In the section dedicated to criticism and scientific life, a review by Doctor of Historical Sciences V.P. Buldakov on the monograph by V.V. Khatarev-Garnishevsky ("Confrontation. Special Services, Army and Power on the Eve of the Fall of the Russian Empire, 193-1917. Moscow, 2020") is published.

The 3rd issue of the journal for 2023 publishes articles by Russian historians and researchers from Uzbekistan devoted to the history of revolutionary processes in Russia (Doctor of Historical Sciences V.P. Buldakov), the history of higher education in the USSR (PhD in Historical Sciences M.V. Kail), the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, its trends, the history of religiosity and the biographies of the ROC leaders (PhD in Historical Sciences V.V. Kerov, PhD in Historical Sciences A.V. Skutnev, PhD in Historical Sciences A.A. Fedotov).

The "Archaeology" section publishes an article by PhD in Historical Sciences D.N. Vorobyov, which presents new data on the topography of medieval Tver.

The issue traditionally publishes articles by postgraduate students. They present the results of research into the history of the struggle for women's rights in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. (N.V. Bogachev), the history of church architecture in Smolensk (I.V. Burdukov), the history of school education in the Tver province in the 1920s (A.V. Plakhina) and in pre-revolutionary Russia (E.V. Ponomarev).

The article by the researcher from Uzbekistan A.F. ugli Atkirov is devoted to the history of philanthropy in Uzbekistan during the period of the Bukhara Emirate.

The 2nd issue of the journal for 2023 will publish articles by leading Russian historians devoted to the study of women's autobiographical memory (Dr. Sci. A. V. Belova), the history of revolutionary processes in Russia (Dr. Sci. V. P. Buldakov), the history of the Russian Orthodox Church (Dr. Sci. T. G. Leontyeva), the history of settlement in the late Middle Ages (Ph. D. Sci. Yu. V. Stepanova), the history of social protest in Russia (Ph. D. Sci. O. G. Usenko). The issue traditionally publishes articles by postgraduate students devoted to research into the history of slavery and the religious issue in the United States in the first half of the 19th century, the history of physical culture and sports in Russia, and the historiography of the study of the Novgorod land in the late Middle Ages.

The part of the issue devoted to criticism and scientific life publishes reviews by V. P. Buldakov (on the book by M. Gurny "The Great War of Processors. Humanities. 1912-1923. St. Petersburg, 2021") and Yu. A. Zelenskaya on the collective monograph completed by T. G. Leontyeva, D. A. Begovatov and N. A. Dmitriev ("Church Life in Soviet Society in the 1940-1950s: Religious Practices of the Population of the Kalinin Region Based on the Memories of the "Children of War". Tver, 2022").