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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-36Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei keramiki i “Usad'ba Kuskovo XVIII veka” (GMK i “Usad'ba Kuskovo XVIII veka”)Holdings Total: 2,027 units, 1712–1990s scientific archive—248 units (1930s–1990s); rare documents—248 units (1712–1917); rare books—1,464 (1712–1913) Archival holdings come under the Estate Division of the museum and form part of the Fond of Rare Books and Rare Documents (Fond redkikh knig i redkikh dokumentov). The documentary fond has been formed largely from collections built up by the owners of the Kuskovo Estate–Prince M.M. Golitsyn, Prince A.M. Cherkasskii, and the Counts Sheremetev, and by the estate administration. These include records of the owners and reports of the estate managers, inventories of the property, letters, and receipts. A separate group of documents comprises inventories of the Kuskovo estate compiled in the 1770s and again in 1810 and 1814. The museum holds a collection of technical drawings, including plans of the estate and its neighboring areas and technical drawings of the facades of the different buildings and palaces. There is also an album of photographs showing the estate as it looked in the nineteenth century. The rare book fond contains genealogical inscriptions and armorials dating from the end of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, albums, reference books, and other architectural publications (early 19th c.), and works of Russian writers like N.M. Karamzin, M.M. Shcherbatov, and M.V. Lomonosov, and the published writings of Count S.D. Sheremetev (early 20th c.). The scientific archive of the museum contains research work carried out by its staff and includes methodological studies, texts of lectures and excursions, restoration documents, and photograph albums (1930–1990). |
