The All-Russian Scientific Conference, the XXVI Yelisavetino-Sergiev Readings, is titled Professional Education under the Patronage of the Imperial House of Romanov: XIX-beginning of XX centuries.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who tried to reform the Soviet Union in its final years, marked his 90th birthday in quarantine on Tuesday.
The 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner has been self-isolating to protect himself throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and like the rest of us he is tired of coronavirus restrictions, Vladimir Polyakov, spokesman for the Gorbachev Foundation, told AFP.
He championed arms control in the late 1980s and has been widely credited with helping end the Cold War alongside former US president Ronald Reagan.
Gorbachev’s democratic reforms brought a wind of change and a taste of freedom to the Soviet Bloc, from Berlin to Vladivostok.