In summary it is the ideas of the enlightenment and the Balkans which occupy the first place in Bulgarian historical and cultural studies. The spread of enlightenment ideas provoked romantic reactions and contributed to form the ideological basis of the Bulgarian national Reveil in the 19th century. Assimilating the renaissance and the enlightenment at the same time, Bulgarian literature and historiography in general created their own stereotypes, trying to catch up with European developments. Also on the basis of 18th-century documents, certain aspects of Muslim culture on Bulgarian territory have been examined. In this way the Study of Texts and Documents creates a specificity of 18th-century Bulgarian studies.
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It was followed in February of 1999 by a colloquium in Moscow on Goethe, organized by the Goethe Commission of the Historical and Cultural Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Institute of World Literature. It was organized by the Ermitage Museum, the Stockholm National Museum, the Royal Chamber of Arms at Stockholm and the Russian Museum. From 28-30 June 1999, the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrated the 275th birthday of the Academy of sciences of Saint Petersburg with an international colloquium on the history of academies. It was organized by the Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Human Sciences and the Institute of History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The same organizations together with the Metaphysical Association of Saint Petersburg, the Maison Pouchkine and the Russian Society for 18th-Century Studies have planned an international colloquium at Saint Petersburg for August of this year.