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Dear Friends,

We announce the call for articles to be published in the "Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art" (vol. 11 - 2021, vol. 12 - 2022). Your texts are welcome through February 1, 2021, via conference@actual-art.org. Papers should be up to 40.000 symbols (with spaces), including notes, bibliographical lists, summaries and all accompanying materials. Guidelines for authors are available here. 

Wishing you inspiration and loking forward to your texts!

We regret to let you know that Tatiana Il’ina honorary professor of Saint-Petersburg State University died on 26^th of October at the age of 86. Tatiana Il’ina was the leader of Saint-Petersburg University school of art history, a renowned scholar who made an outstanding contribution to the studies of 18^th-century Russian art, a wonderful teacher who brought up several generations of researchers, the author of numerous art history textbooks loved by the students, the former head of the Department of Art History. Tatiana Il’ina graduated from Leningrad State University in 1956. After defending PhD on medieval Russian art (“Decoration of Medieval Russian Books. 12^th-15^th centuries. Novgorod and Pskov”) she embarked on a study of Russian art of the 18^th century — an epoch which was then commonly disregarded. In her postdoctoral research project she examined biography and art of mid-18^th-century Russia artist Ivan Vishniakov. Consistently applying traditional method of scrupulous archival research, she pioneered technological expertise combining it with in-depth research of stylistics and iconography, thus opening up entirely new perspectives. These methods demanding extraordinary discipline of scientific thinking did not supplant in her monographs sensitive highly emotional approach to art. That is why her lectures were admired not only by students of Art History Department, but also by people of artistic professions. More than half a century she was a lecturer in Saint-Petersburg Conservatory of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Tati’ana Il’ina was in charge of the History of Art Department at the Institute of History of Saint-Petersburg State University for 15 years. She surrounded her students with loving care and will forever remain for them a shining example. 

The Conference IX is held October 26–31, 2020 in Saint Petersburg, with the State Hermitage Museum as partner museum.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be held on schedule in both live and online formats. Foreign participants are kindly invited to present their reports in online format.The connection to the online broadcast will be provided by the St. Petersburg State University, and the links to the meetings will be provided one day in advance.

The schedule is based on Moscow time.

Dear colleagues, we ask you to pay attention to the fact that in many countries on October 25, the transition to winter time is carried out. Please note the difference in time zones!

Dear Friends,

We announce the call for articles to be published in the collected essays of the 8th conference! Your texts are welcome through February 1, 2019, via conference@actual-art.org. Papers should be up to 40.000 symbols (with spaces), including notes, bibliographical lists, summaries and all accompanying materials. Guidelines for authors are available here. 

Wishing you inspiration and loking forward to your texts!