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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-86Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi tsentral'nyi teatral'nyi muzei im. A.A. Bakhrushina (GTsTM)Previous names
The museum was founded in 1894 by the well-known industrialist and philanthropist, Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bakhrushin (1865–1929), on the basis of his personal collection of theater art and manuscript materials gathered in the late nineteenth century. Known as the Literary-Theater Museum of Aleksei Bakhrushin, the museum was donated to the city of Moscow in 1913 by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. Subsequently renamed in honor of its founder, A.A. Bakhrushin, it remained under Academy of Sciences’ jurisdiction through 1917. In 1918 the museum came under state jurisdiction, subordinate to the People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR (Narkompros RSFSR)—at first as a subsidiary of the Theater Society. It continued to bear the name of its life-long director, A.A. Bakhrushin, and in 1919 was renamed the A.A. Bakhrushin State Theater Museum. It took its present name as the state “central” theater museum in 1941, and its archival holdings rank among the most significant for the history of the theater in Russia, the Soviet Union, and foreign countries. In April 1997 the museum was added to the federal register of the most valuable monuments of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. The Manuscript Division, first organized in 1935, is now known as the Archive-Manuscript Division. In addition, separate divisions retain theater posters and programs, photographs and negatives, audiovisual materials, and theater decorations (including stage designs, engravings, and other graphic materials). The Division of Fonds of Children’s and Puppet Theaters was established in January 2008 with materials transferred to the Bakhrushin Museum from the former State Museum of Children’s Theaters, which was abolished in 2003. The museum has eight affiliated branches, all of which have on exhibit a few related manuscript and photographic materials from the museum collections. Most of them have webpages on the same server as the museum itself: (1) The M.N. Ermolova House-Museum (Dom-muzei M.N. Ermolovoi), founded in 1970, occupies an eighteenth-century building where the actress Maria Nikolaevna Ermolova (1853–1928) lived for forty years. The museum displays considerable archival materials relating to Ermolova’s career, especially in the Malyi Theater. (103104, Moscow, Tverskoi bul'var, 11; tel. +7 495 690-54-16, +7 495 690-49-01; fax: +7 495 690-58-67; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/dme/; http://www.museum.ru/M311). (2) The A.N. Ostrovskii House-Museum (Dom-muzei A.N. Ostrovskogo), opened in 1984, is located in the house where the Russian playwright Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovskii (1823–1886) was born and lived his first three years. This branch has some documentary materials of actors from the Malyi Theater who played roles in Ostrovskii’s plays. (119017, Moscow, ul. Malaia Ordynka [formerly Ostrovskogo], 9; tel. +7 495 953-86-84, +7 495 951-11-40; fax: +7 495 953-12-45, +7 495 953-54-48; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/dmo/; http://www.museum.ru/M308). (3) The V.E. Meyerhold Apartment-Museum (Muzei-kvartira V.E. Meierkhol'da), honors the theater director Vsevolod Emil'evich Meyerhold (Meierhold) (1874–1942). (125032, Moscow, Briusov per. [formerly ul. Nezhdanovoi], 12, kv. 11–11a; tel. +7 495 629-94-37, +7 495 629-53-22; fax: +7 495 629-53-22, +7 495 953-54-48; e-mail: [email protected]; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/mkm/; http://www.museum.ru/M374). (4) The Theater Gallery on Malaia Ordynka (Teatral'naia galereia na Maloi Ordynke), founded in 1997, in the same building as the Ostrovskii Estate-Museum, is used as a special exhibition area, displaying various manuscript and graphic archival materials from different divisions of GTsTM. (109017, Moscow, ul. Malaia Ordynka [formerly Ostrovskogo], 9; tel. +7 495 953-12-45, +7 495 951-11-40; fax: +7 495 953-12-45, +7 495 953-54-48; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/mo/; http://www.museum.ru/M2634). (5) The A.A. Mironov, M.V. Mironova, A.S. Menaker actor’s family Apartment-Museum (Muzei-kvartira akterskoi sem’i A.A., M.V. Mironovykh i A.S. Menakera) (119002, Moscow, Vlas'evskii per., 7, kv. 8; tel. +7 499 241-61-97, +7 499 241-59-50; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/mmm/). (6) The G.S. Ulanova Memorial Apartment-Museum (Memorial'naia muzei-kvartira G.S. Ulanovoi) (Moscow, Kotel'nicheskaia nab., 1/15, kor. B., kv. 185; tel./fax: +7 495 915-44-47; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/mku/; http://www.museum.ru/M3080). (7) The M.S. Shchepkin House-Museum (Dom-muzei M.S. Shchepkina), honoring the famous actor (born a serf) Mikhail Semenovich Shchepkin (1788–1863), is in the process of reorganization in the house where Shchepkin spent the last years of his life (1859–1863). As of the end of 1998 renovation was still in progress. (129110, Moscow, ul. Shchepkina, 47, str. 2; tel. +7 495 600-61-49; fax: +7 495 600-67-14, +7 495 953-54-48; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/dmsch/; http://www.museum.ru/M3131). (8) The V.N. Pluchek Apartment-Museum (Muzei-kvartira V.N. Plucheka) (103104, Moskva, B. Bronnaia, 2/6, kv.47; tel. +7 495 697-70-83; webpages: http://www.gctm.ru/branches/mkp/; http://www.museum.ru/M3132). |
