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Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii religii (GMIR)

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Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 1008-14; PKG M&L (1972), pp. 345; Sup. 1 (1976), p. 142; Myl'nikov (1970), p. 44; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 777-82; GAF Spravochnik (1991), pp. 113-16; Muzei SPb (1994), p. 107; Peterburg (1992), p. 242; Biblioteki SPb (1993), p. 54; Muzei Leningrada (1989), pp. 72-81; G&K Spravochnik (1983), pp. 272-74, 438; Muzei Leningrada (1982), pp. 38-39.

Categories:
• Scientific-Historical Archive
• Fond of Sound Recordings
• Museum Series and Collections of Articles

h-1585. Muzei istorii religii i ateizma: Putevoditel'. Compiled by A.M. Leskov and I.I. Shurygin. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1981. 144 p. + 16 plates. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIRiA] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes the history of the museum and gives details about its exhibits.

h-1586. Muzei istorii religii i ateizma: Spravochnik-putevoditel'. Compiled by M.S. Butinova and N.P. Krasnikov. Moscow: “Nauka”, 1965. 195 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIRiA] (Lib: MH).

An earlier, slightly more detailed guide to the museum.

h-1587. Shurygin, Ia.I. “Obzor fondov.” Ezhegodnik muzeia istorii religii i ateizma 1 (1957), pp. 459–64. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Emphasizes and lists artistic holdings, paintings, drawings, and sculpture in the museum collections, but makes only brief mention of archival materials. A second article by the same author (pp. 437–58) details the history of the Kazan Cathedral.

h-1588. Snigireva, E.A. “K piatidesiatiletiiu muzeia. (Po materialam Rukopisnogo otdela Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii i ateizma).” In Nauchno-ateisticheskie issledovaniia v muzeiakh: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov 3, edited by M.S. Butinova, E.A. Snigireva, et al, pp. 133–47. Leningrad: Izd-vo GMIRiA, 1983–1988. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes the founding of the museum and its development and work from 1932 to 1955. Includes information on collecting activities, the museum holdings, the library, and the archives.

h-1589. Diuzheva, G.N. “Iz opyta komplektovaniia fondov v GMIRiA na primere novykh postuplenii za 1979–1984 gody.” In Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al, pp. 123–27. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. (Lib: DLC).

h-1592. Mordasova, I.V. “Arkhiv Muzeia istorii religii i ateizma i ego ispol'zovanie v muzeinoi ekspozitsii.” In Vsesoiuznaia konferentsiia-seminar “Arkhivnye fondy khudozhestvennykh muzeev SSSR” 1, pp. 168–71. Moscow, 1981.

A brief survey of the archival holdings of the museum with reference to a number of specific fonds and the politico-ideological use of the materials for antireligious exhibits.

h-1593. Emeliakh, L.I. “Starinnye rukopisnye knigi Muzeia istorii religii i ateizma AN SSSR.” In [Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury]. Vol. 13, pp. 556–60. Moscow/Leningrad: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1957. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).
Electronic edition: http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default....

A preliminary survey of 9 manuscript books (15th–18th cc.).

h-1594. Gendrikov, V.B. “Kratkii putevoditel' po fondam lichnogo proiskhozhdeniia Rukopisnogo otdela Muzeia istorii religii i ateizma.” In Ateizm, religiia, sovremennost': Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, pp. 212–23. Leningrad: “Nauka”, 1973. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Lists the personal papers in the archive with mention of their main subject matter.

h-1595. Emeliakh, L.I. “Arkhivnye istoriko-ateisticheskie dokumenty v ekspozitsiiakh muzeev.” In Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al, pp. 30–38. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. (Lib: DLC; MH).

h-1598. Romanov, L.N. “Fonoteka Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii i ateizma.” In Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al, pp. 88–100. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. (Lib: DLC).

Characterizes the collections of sound recordings, and describes the main principles and purposes behind their accessioning.

h-1600. Trudy Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii. St. Petersburg: Aktsioner & Ko, 2001–. 17 issues published through 2017. [GMIR; Ministerstvo kul'tury RF] (Lib: DLC [v.1,2]; MH [v.1]; RGB).
Electronic edition: http://www.gmir.ru/special/research_e... (contents)

h-1601. Problemy formirovaniia i izucheniia muzeinykh kollektsii Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by A.V. Khrshanovskii, A.V. Konovalov, et al. Leningrad: Izd. GMIR, 1990. 279 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIR] (Lib: DLC; MH).

h-1602. Pravoslavie v Drevnei Rusi: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by M.S. Butinova, L.I. Emeliakh, et al. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1989. 151 p. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIRiA] (Lib: DLC; MH).

h-1603. Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov. Edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al. 10 vols. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIRiA] (Lib: DLC; MH[inc]).

Part of the museum's series of annual volumes of collected articles, including surveys of fonds and individual documents, with emphasis on the antireligious exhibits in the museum.

h-1604. Nauchno-ateisticheskie issledovaniia v muzeiakh: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Edited by M.S. Butinova, E.A. Snigireva, et al. 6 vols. Leningrad: Izd-vo GMIRiA, 1983–1988. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIRiA] (Lib: DLC; MH[inc]).

A series of volumes of collected articles issued by the museum includes articles on the history of the museum and surveys of its fonds, as well as other studies of atheism.

h-1605. Ezhegodnik muzeia istorii religii i ateizma. 7 vols. Moscow, 1957–1964. [Minkul't RSFSR; GMIRiA] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A series of volumes of collected scholarly studies issued by the museum, emphasizing atheism, with regular bibliographies of literature on the subject.

Finding Aids —  Specialized:

Categories:
• Scientific-Historical Archive
• Fond of Photographs
• Graphic Collections
• Oriental Collections
• Mason Collection
• Library

h-1610. Klymasz, Robert Bogdan; and Tarasova, Irina Viktorovna. “Doukhobor Materials in the Collections of the Museum of Religious History in St. Petersburg.” In Spirit Wrestlers: Centennial Papers in Honour of Canada’s Doukhobors Heritage, pp. 217–32. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995. (Lib: MH).

A survey of the documents of the Dukhobors for the years 1862–1946. The original Russian text was prepared for publication, but has not yet appeared.

h-1611. Tarasova, Irina Viktorovna. “Apokrify po spiskam XVIII–XIX vv. iz sobraniia GMIRiA.” In Pravoslavie v Drevnei Rusi: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, L.I. Emeliakh, et al, pp. 67–73. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1989. (Lib: DLC; MH).

A survey of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century apocryphal works in the museum, with more detailed listing of some 30 manuscript apocryphal writings.

h-1612. Shakhnovich, Mikhail Iosifovich. “Idei antichnogo ateizma v russkom rukopisnom pamiatnike XVIII v. “Zertsalo bezbozhiia.” (Iz kollektsii Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii i ateizma).” In Nauchno-ateisticheskie issledovaniia v muzeiakh: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, E.A. Snigireva, et al, pp. 5–17. Leningrad: Izd-vo GMIRiA, 1983–1988. (Lib: DLC; MH).

A history of the acquisition, and a description and analysis of a manuscript codex of eighteenth-century atheistic writings.

h-1613. Shakhnovich, Mikhail Iosifovich. “V.D. Bonch-Bruevich—issledovatel' religiozno-obshchestvennykh dvizhenii v Rossii.” Ezhegodnik muzeia istorii religii i ateizma 7 (1964), pp. 293–300. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Discusses the antireligious studies and collections of Bonch-Bruevich, who directed the museum and contributed to its archival holdings.

h-1614. Gol'dberg, Nikolai Moiseevich. “Pamiati starshego nauchnogo sotrudnika Muzeia istorii religii i ateizma AN SSSR professora S.G. Lozinskogo.” Ezhegodnik muzeia istorii religii i ateizma 1 (1957), pp. 519–521. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes the work of the church historian and professor, S.G. Lozinskii, who was associated with the museum and whose personal papers are held in the archive.

h-1618. Diuzheva, G.N. “‘Palestinskaia’ kollektsiia fotografii v sobranii GMIRiA.” In Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al, pp. 121–23. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. (Lib: DLC).

A brief survey of the documentary photographs of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (9,347 units from 1858 to 1900) and a list of the main subject headings.

h-1620. Chenskaia, G.A. “O lubochnykh kartinkakh v sobranii GMIRa.” In Problemy formirovaniia i izucheniia muzeinykh kollektsii Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, edited by A.V. Khrshanovskii, A.V. Konovalov, et al, pp. 81–95. Leningrad: Izd. GMIR, 1990. (Lib: DLC).

A description of nineteenth-century popular satirical cartoons (lubok) and Soviet posters from the 1920s done in the same style.

h-1621. Stetskevich, M.S. “Istoriko-religiovedcheskii analiz serii angliiskikh graviur pervoi treti XIX v. iz sobraniia GMIRiA.” In Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al, pp. 60–81. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. (Lib: DLC; MH).

An outline description of 9 early nineteenth-century English etchings taken from the drawings of T. Shepherd and showing a number of London churches and their historical connections with the Church of England.

h-1624. Sazykin, Aleksei Georgievich. “Kratkoe opisanie kollektsii mongol'skikh rukopisei i ksilografov, khraniashcheisia v Gosudarstvennom muzee istorii religii i ateizma.” In Muzei v ateisticheskoi propagande: Sbornik [nauchnykh] trudov, edited by M.S. Butinova, R.F. Filippova, et al, pp. 101–12. Leningrad: Izd. GMIRiA, 1979–1988. (Lib: DLC).

A general description of the collection and scholarly description of 21 manuscripts (early 19th–early 20th cc.).

h-1625. Stetskevich, T.A. “Osnovnye vidy izobrazitel'nogo materiala po islamu v sobranii Muzeia istorii religii.” In Problemy formirovaniia i izucheniia muzeinykh kollektsii Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, edited by A.V. Khrshanovskii, A.V. Konovalov, et al, pp. 194–220. Leningrad: Izd. GMIR, 1990. (Lib: DLC).

An outline of the pictorial materials in the Islamic collection, which includes cheaply produced religious literature—lithographs and chromolithographs, drawings, engravings and photographs (mid-19th–early 20th cc.)

h-1626. Garanin, I.P. “Kitaiskii blagozhelatel'nyi lubok iz kollektsii V.M. Alekseeva.” Ezhegodnik muzeia istorii religii i ateizma 7 (1957), pp. 315–27. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes the collection and includes a detailed catalogue of 13 popular wood-block prints.

h-1627. Garanin, I.P. “Kitaiskii antikhristianskii lubok XIX v.” Ezhegodnik muzeia istorii religii i ateizma 4 (1960), pp. 403–26. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes materials in an album from the collection of V.M. Alekseev with a description of each of the 32 wood-block prints.

h-1630. * Masonskaia kollektsiia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii/The masonic collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion. Compiled by M.V. Ptichenko. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'sko-poligraficheskii tsentr SPb GUTD, 2006. 59 p. Text in Russian and English. [GMIR] (Lib: MH).

h-1635. *Ivanova, S.M. “Otdel knizhnykh fondov Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii.” Trudy Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii religii VI-VII (St. Petersburg, 2007).