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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: G-7Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka iskusstv (RGBI)Tsentr vizual'noi informatsii [Center for Visual Information] Telephone: +7 495 692-35-08 Fax: +7 495 692-35-08 Reading room: no. 3, room 10 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://liart.ru/ru/pages/index/otdels... (Rus); http://liart.ru/en/pages/index/otdels... (Eng); http://liart.ru/ru/pages/fonds/izofond/ (fonds) Opening hours: M–W, FSa 12:00–20:45, Th 14:00–20:45Head: Elena Georgievna Khaplanova (tel. +7 495 692-35-08) Holdings Total: late 18th–20th cc. photographs—ca. 30,000 units (1850s–20th c.); daguerrotypes—3 units (1850–1853); post-cards—ca. 100,000 units; engravings and lithographs—ca. 9,000 units Iconographic materials held by the library were started with the collection of Professor P.P. Pashkov (1872–1952), and augmented by collections of S.S. Mokul'skii, A.V. Tunkel', L.A. Ureklian, and M.B. Zagorskii. Illustrative materials include sketches, engravings, lithographs, photographs, postcards, as well as billboard posters, and other graphic materials. There are many original sketches for theater stage design, scenery, and costumes, including those by A.N. Benois (Benua), I.Ia. Bilibin, B.R. Erdman, V.N. Khodasevich, and K.I. Korovin. The library has a large collection of photographs on the history of the theater, ballet, and opera in Russia and abroad, as well as photographs of actors, directors, and designers. These include signed photographs of the directors K.S. Stanislavskii and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, who created the Moscow Arts Theater, as well as the signed photographs of many of the performers in the Bolshoi Theater. There are also photographs of the costumes worn by members of the various social classes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia, which are arranged in a separate fond for photographs of daily life. Another separate fond retains negatives depicting scenes from plays performed in the country’s principal theaters—particularly the Bolshoi and Mariinskii (Imperial Maria) Theaters, the State Academic Malyi Theater, and the Moscow Operetta Theater. There are also collections of postcards (1849–1992), collectors’ albums with pictures of Russia, Europe, and Asia, sketches of ordinary life, and a photographic chronicle of events in Moscow for the years 1950–1970. The Engravings Fond (late 18th–early 19th cc.) contains engravings and lithographs with views of architectural monuments, costume designs, rural views, and portraits of theater performers. Working conditions: Requests for materials from the division should be made to the consultant in the division specialized reading room no. 3. Reference facilities: There is a subject catalogue for iconographic materials of different types, a numbered catalogue of engravings, and a card catalogue of photographs of plays (listed under the name of the play). Copy facilities: Selected materials may be xerox-copied. |
