Russia and the Seven Years' War (SYW, 1756-1763): Politics, Army, Culture and the People of the Era,
May 27-28, 2021, Moscow

Venue: German Historical Institute in Moscow & Online
Working languages: English, Russian (simultaneous translation)

27.05.2020, Thursday (schedule given in MSK time: GMT + 3).

9.30-10:00 (MSK: ) Registration off- & online

10:00 Opening of the conference (DHIM director Sandra Dahlke; Denis Sdvizhkov)

Panel „By other means“: War, diplomacy, politics I
10:20-10:40 Maria Petrova (Institute of World History RAN) Hermann-Karl von Keyserlingk and an aborted alliance between Russian and Holy Roman Empire
10:40-11:00 Tomasz Szwaciński (National Library of Poland)/ Online Two reports of Alexander Golitsyn from London (June 1756)
11:00-11:20 Mikhail Kiselev (Ural Federal Un-ty / Ural Branch RAN) Clerk and War: Dmitry Volkov, informal relations and politics in Russia (late 1750s- early 1760s)

11:20-12:00 Discussion, coffee-break

Panel „By other means“: War, diplomacy, politics II Moderation: Maria Petrova (Institute of World History RAN)
12:00-12:20 Jury Akimov (SPb Un-ty / HSE Moscow) Russia and military actions in North America during the SYW
12:20-12:40 Olga Khavanova (Institute of Slavic Studies RAN) Baptisms, weddings and war: subjects and forms of communication between the Saint-Petersburg and Vienna courts before and during the SYW
12:40-13:00 František Stellner (Charles Un-ty Prague) Dynastic Politics of European Powers during the SYW

13:00-14:30 Discussion, lunch

14:30-14:50 Sergey Polskoy (HSE Moscow) What the Russian officers in the middle of the 18th century spoke about: „Soldiers Talks“ (1743) and its origin

Panel «Nerve of the war»: Finances, Logistics, Industry Moderation: Catherine Evtukhov (Columbia Un-ty, NY)
14:50-15:00 Catherine Evtukhov (Columbia Un-ty, NY) Online The Army of Elizabeth and the "Baltic Road"
15:00-15:20 Friederike Gehrmann (Viadrina Un-ty, Frankfurt (Oder) Online The Russian Iron Industry during the Seven Years’ War

15:20-15:40 Coffee-break

15:40-16:00 Maxim Khatskevich (RGADA/ Lomonossov Un-ty Moscow) Development of the Russian recruiting system during the SYW (according to guberniia and voevoda chancellery reports)
16:00-16:20 Pavel Demchenko (HSE SPb) Spoliation and naval prize practics during the SYW in the context of international relations
16:20-17:00 Discussion, coffee-break

Panel: Легкие войска: гусары, казаки, граничары / Light troops: Hussars, Cossacs, Grenzer. Moderation: Tomasz Ciesielski (Un-ty of Opole, Poland) Online
17:00-17:20 Alexander Buczynski (Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb) Online ‘Small War’ in a ‘World War’ Context: The Introduction of Regular Light Troops from the Austrian Military Frontier in the Third Silesian War
17:20-17:40 Pyotr Avakov (Southern Scientific Center RAN) New Huns invasion: Don Cossacks in the SYW 1756-1763
17:40-18:00 Jakov Lazarev (Ural Federal Un-ty) Ukrainian Cossacks in the context of mobilizations and war plans of the Russian Government in the SYW
18:00-18:20 Vadim Egorov (Russian State Military Historical Archive) Russian Hussars of the SYW: Composition and uniform (1757-1762)

18:20-19:00 Discussion

28.05.2020, Friday

10:00-10:20 Tomasz Ciesielski (Un-ty of Opole, Poland) The Logistic of the Russian army in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1757-1762. Transport, food and provender, military magazines in a Polish town

Panel: Men of the SYW at war and in peace.
Moderation: Olga Khavanova (Institute of Slavic Studies RAN)
10:20-10:40 Denis Sdvizhkov (German Historical Institute) Autobiographical sources of the SYW in European comparison
10:40-11:00 Maxim Anissimov (IRI RAN) Historical documents about the SYW in the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire

11:00-11:50 Discussion, coffee-break

11:50-12:10 Alexey Golubinsky (IRI RAN) SYW officers in civilian service: the General Land survey in Russia
12:10-12:30 Brian Davies (University of Texas at San Antonio) / Online F. W. von Bauer: Quartermaster, Cartographer, and Field Commander in Prussian and Russian Service

12:30-14:00 Discussion, lunch

Panel: Память войны, светская и сакральная / Memory of the war, sacral and secular
Moderation: Denis Sdvizhkov (German Historical Institute)
14:00-14:10 Vitaly Ziabrikov (IVI RAN) Presentation of the Russian version of „Wars of Frederick the Great“ (German General Staff)
14:10-14:30 Nadieszda Kizenko (Uni-ty at Albany) The Liturgical Commemoration—and Forgetting—of the Seven Years’ War
14:30-14:50 Mikhail Miliutin (Academic Gymnasium SPbGU) Outline of the „History of the SYW“ in the memoirs of Andrey Bolotov: history of the text

14:50-15:10 Coffee-break

15:10-15:30 Alexandra Veselova (IRLI RAN) „This war was my first school“: SYW in Russian memoirs in the second half of the 18th century
15:30-15:50 Maxim Batshev (Russian Research In-t for Cultural & Natural Heritage) SYW in Russian travelogues at the turn of the 19th century

15:50-17:00 Panel discussion, Closing remarks, closing of the conference.

https://www.dhi-moskau.org/fileadmin/user_upload/DHI_Moskau/pdf/27-28_Maja_Programme_Digital_2.pdf