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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: E-26Last update of repository: 15 March 2020Institut istorii material'noi kul'tury RAN (IIMK)Rukopisnyi otdel Nauchnogo arkhiva [Manuscript Division of Scientific Archive] Telephone: +7 812 571-51-62 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.archeo.ru/struktura-1/nauc... Opening hours: MWF 11:00–17:00Head of Scientific Archive: Vladimirovna Mariia Medvedeva; e-mail [email protected] Holdings Total: 102 fonds; over 70,000 units; 1795–to present institutional fonds—11 units; personal fonds—78 units; archival collections—4 units The archive holds the records of institutions in the field of archeology and preservation of monuments, dating from the late eighteenth century to the present, along with personal papers of related scholars and archeologists. Representing prerevolutionary institutions are the fonds of the Imperial Archeological Commission (1859–1918), the Russian Archeological Society (1846–1925), and the Moscow Archeological Society (1865–1920). There are also fonds of earlier subdivisions of a number of government agencies dealing with archeology and the preservation of monuments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, including the Third Desk of the First Division of the General Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (1820–1852), the Third Division of the Ministry of the Imperial Court (1722–1728; 1820–1855), the Office of the Ministry of Appanages (1851–1864), the so-called Stroganov Commission, or the Commission for Archeological Investigation in Russia (1856–1858), and the Society for Protection and Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity in Russia (1910–1917). These include reports of field and preservation work, field diaries and note books, inventories of finds, graphic documents, materials of the fifteen prerevolutionary archeological congresses, documents for archeological maps of guberniias, and information about the state and holdings of provincial archives. There is a special collection of questionnaires (passports) of churches in all ecclesiastical sees of the Russian Empire with data on their history and decoration, collected by the Imperial Academy of the Arts in 1887–1888. Among institutional fonds from the Soviet period are the records of the Division of Museums and Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity under People’s Commissariat of Education (1918–1929), the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK) and its successors—the Institute of the History of Material Culture and Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Archeology (1919–1991), as well as of the Publishing House of the Committee of Popularization of Artistic Editions under GAIMK (1922–1931). Graphic documentation (18th c.–1950s) includes watercolor and pencil drawings, plans of excavations, archeological maps, town plans, rubbings and prints of inscriptions and ornaments, as well as photographs of architectural and archeological monuments in all regions of Russian Empire, the Balkans, Italy, and Asia Minor. There are albums of watercolors of monuments on the Northern Coast of the Black Sea and in Siberia, Samarkand, and Kyiv, and a complete collection of restoration drawings for churches of Novgorod and cities of Central Russia. Personal papers of important archeologists, include those of the President of the Imperial Academy of the Arts A.N. Olenin; the Orientalist and numismatist P.S. Savel'ev; chairmen of the Archeological Commission S.G. Stroganov and A.A. Bobrinskii; historian of art and archeologists Ia.I. Smirnov; Orientalists V.G. Tizengauzen and N.I. Veselovskii; the specialist on antiquities B.V. Farmakovskii; the Slavicist A.A. Spitsyn; the architects P.P. Pokryshkin and N.V. Sultanov; the painter and philosopher N.K. Roerich (Rerikh); and the archeologists G.A. Bonch-Osmolovskii, V.F. Gaidukevich, M.P. Griaznov, P.P. Efimenko, S.N. Zamiatin, A.A. Iessen, M.K. Karger, and A.A. Miller, among others. A number of personal fonds also contain extensive graphic materials, for example, documentation on settlements in the region of Old Ladoga among the papers of N.I. Repnikov, and drawings on the reconstruction of Pskov (15th–17th cc.) among the papers of Iu.P. Spegal'skii. N.B. The records of IIMK for the period 1938–1968 were formally transferred to the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PFA RAN, E–25, fond 312, available electronically: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa...), but remain on temporary deposit in the Manuscript Archive of the Institute itself. Working conditions: Materials are available in the reading room immediately upon order. Reference facilities: Researchers have access to the catalogue of fonds of the Imperial Archeological Commission (name and geographic), the index to fonds of the Russian Archeological Society (name, subject, and geographic), and opisi of personal papers. The list of fonds available electronically: http://www.archeo.ru/struktura-1/nauc.... Digital copies of some documents also available on the website: http://www.archeo.ru/struktura-1/nauc.... Copy facilities: Facilities are available for xerox, photographic copies, and microfilms. |
