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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-230

Last update of repository: 18 March 2020

Gosudarstvennyi muzei gorodskoi skul'ptury (GMGS)


Holdings

manuscript records—ca. 6,000 units (1930s—“1990s); photographs and negatives—ca. 40,000 (1930s–1990s)

The Scientific Division (Nauchnyi otdel) of the museum holds documents on the history of the building, preservation, and restoration of sculptural monuments, tombstones of cultural importance, and memorial plaques in St. Petersburg. Of special importance are registers that have been preserved for several cemeteries, including the comprehensive register of burials in the Alexander Nevskii Lavra—“Khronologicheskii spisok o pogrebennykh v Aleksandro-Nevskoi lavre, 1716–1916.” There are also designs for tombstones and other monuments that were built during the Soviet period and for the successful entries in competitions to design monuments in Leningrad.
        There are also graphic materials and documentation relating to the Seige of Leningrad. There are drawings, studies, and technical drawings by the architects A.N. Aruzhchev, A.I. Gegello, E.A. Levinson, and V.N. Tsaleporovskii, and the sculptors V.Ia. Bogoliubov, N.V. Dadykin, V.V. Isaev, and M.G. Manizer.
        The photograph archive (fototeka) contains photographic prints and negatives of tombstones and other memorial and monumental sculpture, and of the historical and memorial plaques to be found in St. Petersburg.


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