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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: D-18Last update of repository: 7 December 2020Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva Sankt-Peterburga (TsGALI SPb)Holdings Total: 976 fonds, 338,317 units, 1917–to present institutional fonds—278 fonds (174,291 units) (1917–1984); personal papers—538 fonds; archival collections—15; personnel records—24,100 units An annotated list of all fonds and opisi in the archive is available on the TsGALI SPb website at: https://spbarchives.ru/infres/-/archi.... TsGALI SPb has brought together fonds of state institutions and public organizations in the field of literature, culture and the arts, and cultural education, as well as personal papers, reflecting the history of culture and the performing arts in St. Petersburg from 1917 to present. The archive contains records of abolished as well as current administrative agencies in the field of culture, such as the Administration of Artistic Affairs, the Main Administration for Culture of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council, the Administration of Leningrad Academic Theaters, the Administration for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit, 1939–1976), the administrations and committees on culture and cultural enlightenment institutions, and the Administration for the Promotion of Cinema (Kinofikatsiia). The archive retains fonds of various organizations of writers and artists, including Proletkul't, and the Leningrad branches of various professional unions for cinematographers, writers, journalists, architects, and painters. There are records of publishing houses, such as “Avrora,” “Brokgauz i Efron,” “World Literature,” “Soviet Writer,” and “Belles-lettres” (“Khudozhestvennaia literatura”), among others; of editorial offices of magazines, such as Avrora, Zvezda, and Neva; of local newspapers; and of the Petrograd Bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA). The records of the Leningrad Radio Broadcasting Committee contain texts of speeches of many writers, such as A.A. Akhmatova, O.F. Berggol'ts, V.V. Vishnevskii, V.F. Panova, and N.S. Tikhonov, among those who lived through the blockade of Leningrad. Theater arts and music are represented by fonds of the All-Russian Theater Society (VTO), the Russian Music Society, the S.M. Kirov State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, the A.M. Gor'kii State Academic Bolshoi Dramatic Theater (now the G.A. Tovstonogov ABDT), the D.D. Shostakovich Academic Philharmonic and M.I. Glinka Capella, the N.A. Rimskii-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory, A.Ia. Vaganova Choreographic School (now the Russian Ballet Academy), the Academy of Theater Arts, and the V.I. Mukhina Higher School of Commercial Art. Fonds of film studios include those of Lenfil'm, and the Leningrad Branch of Goskino, among others. There are fonds of the Property Division of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, the State Museum Fond of the Leningrad Branch of Glavnauka (1917–1929), and the Commission for Control of Export Abroad of Scientific and Cultural Treasures. Records of many municipal and suburban museums contain records of museum administration, reports on nationalization, state registration for the protection of artistic treasures and the registration of monuments, among other materials. The archive preserves records of scientific research institutes located in Leningrad, such as the Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography (now the Russian Institute for the History of Art, see E–57), the Institute of Artistic Culture, the Institute of the Comparative History of Literature and Languages of East and West, the Institute of Bibliology, and the Leningrad Branch of the Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Records of libraries include those of the M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (now the Russian National Library, see G–15) and the V.V. Maiakovskii Central CityLibrary. There are a number of fonds of educational institutions in the arts and documentation of palaces and houses of culture, clubs, lecture bureaus, as well as the records of the consolidated fond of the Leningrad National House for Enlightenment (Natsional'nyi dom prosveshcheniia) (1924–1938). The archive houses a number of collections, including materials on the history of St. Petersburg collected by S.M. Viazemskii, and historical-artistic collection of D.I. Kotel'nikov. The archive containsmany personal papers of writers and poets, including A.R. Beliaev, M.A. Dudin, D.A. Granin, V.V. Konetskii, Iu.S. Rytkheu, and M.L. Slonimskii; literary scholars, including G.A. Gukovskii and V.A. Manuilov; art critics such as F.I. Schmitt; the artist E.E. Moiseenko; composers such as B.A. Arapov and V.P. Solov'ev-Sedoi; the director A.A. Briantsev; actors, including E.I. Time and Iu.V. Tolubeev; film directors including F.M. Ermler; and the ballet director L.V. Iakobson. |
