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Last update of repository: 15 February 2021

Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka (RGB)


Otdel izoizdanii
[Division of Graphic Imprints]

Address: ul. Vozdvizhenka, 3/5, korp. B, entrance 1

Telephone: +7 495 622-84-35, +7 495 622-84-61

Fax: +7 495 695-35-02

Reading room: +7 499 557-04-07, add 24-36

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: https://www.rsl.ru/ru/about/funds/izo

Opening hours: RdngRm: M–Sa 9:00–20:00

Head: Liubov' Vital'evna Rodionova (tel. +7 495 622-84-35)


Holdings

Total: ca.1,500,000 units; 17th c.–to present
photographs—ca. 80,000 units; posters—400,000 units (1863–1986); leaflets—9,663 units (17th c.–1923); lubok—33,797 units (17th–early 20th cc.); engravings—ca. 100,000 units; collection of prerevolutionary and Soviet applied graphics—over 140,000 units

The Division of Graphic Imprints retains printed productions issued from the sixteenth century to the present. These include posters, prints, brochures, reproductions, engravings, popular prints (lubok), photographs, and other graphic materials. The holdings include the personal collections of artists, graphic artists, and photographers, including collections of engravings by A.S. Petrovskii, bookplates and book markings by S.P. Fortinskii, ex libris by S.A. Vule, book dust-covers by K. Burov, and photographs by S. Strunnikov and V.P. Grebnev.
        There are also albums of eighteenth-century engravings by M. I. Makhaev and Gérard Delabart, albums of O. Kadol', A.E. Martynov, and André Durand, and a series of nineteenth-century lithographs by the Daziaro publishers. The Soviet period is represented by albums of engravings by I.N. Pavlov, M.A. Matorin, and E.B. Bernshtein.
        The division has collectors’ albums and photographic albums containing unique pictures of Moscow and its individual architectural complexes and buildings. Of particular interest are the albums from the collection made by E. Gauthier Dufaillet with some 500 pictures of Moscow between 1912 and 1914.


Working conditions:
The Division has reading room for 12 researchers (website: https://www.rsl.ru/ru/4readers/rooms/izo).

Copy facilities:
Photographic facilities are available.


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