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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Institut russkoi literatury (Pushkinskii Dom) RAN (IRLI/PD)


Literaturnyi muzei
[Literary Museum]

Telephone: +7 812 328-05-02, +7 812 328-19-01, add. 1-61

Website: http://www.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default....;  http://www.museum.ru/M188

Opening hours: M–F 11:00–16:00 (research by appointment)

Head: Larisa Georgievna Agamalian


Holdings

Total: 200,000 units; 18th–20th cc.

The museum, founded in 1905, retains original manuscript and graphic materials (watercolors, drawings, lithographs, and photographs) and scattered individual documents on the history of Russian literature of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including manuscripts of literary works and correspondence, engravings and photographic portraits of personages involved with cultural, social, and political movements; photographs depicting events of Russian and world history; documents relating to places where writers lived and worked; and a collection of illustrations by well-known graphic artists for literary publications.
        The museum also holds a collection of autolithographs and drawings depicting A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol', M.Iu. Lermontov (including almost all of his sketches and portraits), V.A. Zhukovskii, V.F. Odoevskii, I.S. Turgenev, I.A. Goncharov, L.N. Tolstoi, and A.M. Gor'kii, among other authors.
        Russian literature of the twentieth century is represented by manuscripts of literary works, personal documents, correspondence, and photographs of A.A. Prokof'ev, G.K. Suvorov, E.S. Nezhintsev, F.S. Kniazev, and M.V. Troitskii, and other figures of the literary and cultural world.


Summary:
Also as H–259.

Working conditions:
Materials are available soon after orders are placed.

Reference facilities:
There are acquisition registers and registration books, card catalogues of personal names and subjects, and a catalogue of the graphic materials by artist (in alphabetical order).


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