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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: D-30

Last update of repository: 7 December 2020

Otdel populiarizatsii ob"ektov kul'turnogo naslediiai i khraneniia dokumentirovannoi informatsii (vedomstvennyi arkhiv) Komiteta po gosudarstvennomu kontroliu, ispol'zovaniiu i okhrane pamiatnikov istorii i kul'tury Sankt-Peterburga (Arkhiv KGIOP)


Holdings

Total: ca. 799,500 units, 18th c.–1993
historico-scientific documents—3,500 units; photographs—250,000 units; design documents—33,000 units; drawings—70,000 units

The archive houses records regarding the creation, reconstruction, restoration, and technical conditions of historical and cultural monuments of St. Petersburg and its environs, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. There are historico-scientific materials, drawings, photographs, and design cost-estimates.
        The archive contains a large fond of construction drawings, which includes a collection of manuscript plans of the city; original architectural drafts by August Ricard de Montferrand, Ippolito (I.A.) Monighetti, A.I. Shtakenshneider (Stakenschneider), Harald Julius Bosse, M.E. Mesmakher (Mesmacher), V.A. Pokrovskii, and others; a collection of lithographs and engravings of views of St. Petersburg and its environs by M.I. Makhaev, A.E. Martynov, A.M. Shelkovnikov, and others; portraits, book designs and illustrations, and reproductions from paintings.
        Drawings from the Soviet period include engineering surveys of monuments, projects and plans for the reconstruction of the central streets and squares of St. Petersburg in the 1930s and 40s, as well as lithographs, engravings, and drawings of the city and its environs by the painters and architects Ia.O. Rubanchik, A.B. Karpova-Lebedinskaia, L.S. Khizhinskii, O.K. Arshakuni, and A.V. Vasil'ev. The archive also has a collection of graphic materials on the iconography of the cities of Italy, Germany, France, Turkey, and Russia (including Moscow, Novgorod, and Pskov), and the Baltic countries, among others.
        There is a collection of notes from files in state archives regarding the monuments of the city and oblast, scientific-methodological materials on the history and theory of fine arts and restoration, and manuscript monographs about artists and architects. The archive also holds descriptive inventories of architectural and artistic decorations of palaces, samples of decorative art, and design cost-estimates for the restoration and repair of monuments, restoration plans, inspection reports for buildings and palaces, reports of state registration, and correspondence regarding preservation and restoration of monuments.
        The archive has a number of personal fonds of historians, architects, and art critics who studied the history of St. Petersburg culture—I.B. Mikhalovskii, A.A. Savel'ev, A.G. Iatsevich, V.A. Butmi, and members of the Old Petersburg Society, among others.
        The fond of photographs contains negatives and positives of facades and interiors of architectural monuments of the city and oblast, as well as those of Novgorod, Pskov, and other Russian cities. Of particular value are the photographs by K.K. and A.K. Bulla, A.A., A.K., and V.A. Grigor'ev, as well as materials of the Old Petersburg Society, such as the albums “Home Churches” and “Panorama of Nevskii Prospekt.” The archive has a rich collection of postcards depicting St. Petersburg and its suburbs, cities located on the banks of the Volga River, as well as a number of films about the restoration of the ensembles of Peterhof, Pavlovsk, and Pushkin (now Tsarskoe Selo) (1953–1957).


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