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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: G-15Last update of repository: 15 February 2021Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka (RNB)Dom Plekhanova [Plekhanov House] Address: 190005, St. Petersburg, ul. 4-ia Krasnoarmeiskaia, 1/33 Telephone: +7 812 316-74-11 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://nlr.ru/nlr_visit/RA1196/otdel-...; http://nlr.ru/domplekhanova Opening hours: M–F 9:00–17:00Transport: metro: Tekhnologicheskii institut; trol: 3, 8, 15, 17 Head: Tat'iana Ivanovna Filimonova (tel. +7 812 316-74-11) Holdings Total: ca. 30,000 units; 1832–1994 personal papers—over 30 fonds The Plekhanov House, administratively a branch of the MS Division, holds a major collection of documentation on the history of the Russian and European social and revolutionary movements, including 26 personal fonds of social and revolutionary leaders. It was founded on the basis of the archive and library of G.V. Plekhanov, which—transferred from abroad by his heirs in 1928—includes manuscripts of his writings and related materials which had been prepared for publication, biographical documents, and correspondence, including materials prepared for the unpublished “Marxist Encyclopedia.” The Plekhanov library includes more than 8,000 books and periodicals in 18 languages, with extensive illegal press. Other personal fonds comprise the papers of Plekhanov’s wife R.M. Bograd (including her extensive memoirs), personal papers ofthe revolutionary group “Liberation of Labor” (“Osvobozhdenie truda”), V.I. Zasulich (including documentation on the First International), L.G. Deich (including his writings, memoirs, and other materials relating to the history of the revolutionary movement),and the Social-Democrats A.I. Liubimov (including documentation on the history of the RSDRP), A.F. Bur'ianov, and N.V. Vasil'ev, among other revolutionaries. There are also personal papers of the Cadet P.N. Miliukov, the economists P.P. Maslov and P.B. Struve, and other political leaders. The detailed description of fonds of the Plekhanov House available on the website: http://nlr.ru/domplekhanova/33/o-fondah. Working conditions: There is a separate reading room. New regulations for work in reading room of the Plekhanov House (2012) available on the website (pdf): http://nlr.ru/nlr_visit/dep/artupload.... Reference facilities: There are typewritten opisi for all fonds of political-revolutionary activists. There are separate catalogues for the G.V. Plekhanov fond (no. 1093)—name, systematic, subject, and chronological; also a chronology of his life and biobibliography of all Plekhanov’s own writings and publications about him (“Plekhanoviana”). A contemporary computerized information-retrieval system for the archival fonds is being established. The list of fonds of the Plekhanov House available on the website: http://nlr.ru/domplekhanova/34/spisok.... Library facilities: The reference library is intended for staff use. Copy facilities: Photographs, xerox copies, and microfilms can be prepared through the RNB Division of External Service. |
