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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: G-15Last update of repository: 15 February 2021Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka (RNB)Otdel estampov [Division of Prints and Engravings] Address: 191069, St. Petersburg, Sadovaia ul., 18 Telephone: +7 812 718-85-56 Fax: +7 812 310-61-48 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://nlr.ru/nlr_visit/RA1177/otdel-... Opening hours: MWF 13:00–21:00, TuTh 9:00–17:00, Sa 11:00–19:00Head: Elena Valentinovna Barkhatova (tel. +7 812 312-34-59); e-mail [email protected] Holdings Total: ca. 240,000 units; late 17th–20th cc. photographs—ca. 10,000 units (1860–1900); engravings—ca. 85,000 units (18th–20th c.); posters and other printed graphics—ca. 150,000 units (1850–1917) The Prints and Engravings Division houses an extensive collection of Russian and Western European prints and engravings, lithographs, wood-block prints (lubok), posters (including advertising posters) and handbills, commercial graphics, ex libris, postcards, reproductions, portrait and landscape photographs, and various albums. Graphic art materials from the collections of M.P. Pogodin, V.Ia. Adariukov, G. Laddei, N.K. Siniagin, I.I. Rybakov, I.I. Alekseev, N.G. Churakov, and others, constitute valuable historical sources. Drawings and engravings depict views of cities and towns, historical events, and everyday life in Russia during the nineteenth century. There are also albums of literary life with notes and drawings (18th–early 20th cc.). There are thematic collections “Russian Engraved Portraits of the 17th–19th centuries,” “A Gallery of Portraits of Peter the Great,” “Views of Russian Cities (late 18th–mid-19th cc.),” “Views of Petersburg and its Environs,” and a collection of foreign portraits (over 40,000) that were bequeathed in 1895by D.A. Rovinskii. Among the rarities of the Division are copper engravings of the “Crucifixion (Raspiatie)” (1460–1470), a complete collection of etchings of the Italian architect and painter Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and folios of the work ofAlbrecht Dürer, Marcantonio Raimondi, Jacques Callot, and Rembrandt and their students. Impressive holdings of Russian lubok (late 17th–mid-19th c.) came from the collections of M.P. Pogodin, A.V. Olsuf'ev, V.I. Dahl (Dal'), andothers, supplemented by copies that came to the library from censorship committees and those acquired as obligatory deposit copies. The division has an exceptionally rich collection of photographs from early photography in Russia in the nineteenth century through major Soviet photographers, as well as the work of many foreign photographers (the description of photograph collection of the division see on the webpage: http://www.nlr.ru/fonds/prints/photo.htm). These include individual photographs, as well as photo albums and photo postcards, with views of cities and towns, the countryside and daily life, and historical events (including the revolutionary and Civil War period, as well as the two world wars). There is also an extensive representative collection of printed graphics—approximately 1,200,000 examples of the work of contemporary artists. These include originals and rare examples of the production of the “Windows of ROSTA”— “Okna ROSTA” (1919–1921) and a complete collection of posters from the period of World War II. There are advertising and theater posters from the prerevolutionary period, as well as many political and film posters from the Soviet period. The collection is annually accessioning materials of contemporary graphic artists. Working conditions: The division reading room is shared with the Manuscript Division. New regulations for work in reading room of the Division (2015) available on the website (pdf): http://nlr.ru/nlr_visit/dep/artupload.... Reference facilities: There are alphabetical and subject catalogues, and a catalogue of printed leaflets and handbills and albums. Library facilities: There is a reference collection in the division that is accessible to readers. Of special interest is the large collection of exhibition catalogues (especially since 1956). Copy facilities: Microfilm, xerox, and photographic copies can be prepared. |
