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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: G-9Last update of repository: 16 March 2020Tsentral'naia nauchnaia biblioteka Soiuza teatral'nykh deiatelei RF (TsNB STD RF)Rukopisnyi otdel [Manuscript Division] Website: http://librarystd.ru/2015-05-18-15-19... Opening hours: M–F 11:00–19:00; July–August, 11:00–18:00Holdings Total: 115 fonds and personal collections (30 fonds unarranged) fonds; ca. 10,000 units; 19th—“20th cc. The Manuscript Division has extensive materials relating to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century theater in Russia and the Soviet Union. There are many original manuscripts pertaining to the history of the theater, including manuscript plays, promptbooks, correspondence, theater programs, theater clippings, and scores/libretti. Of special interest is the collection of theatrical memoirs and autobiographies brought together since the 1930s by the VTO/STD. While the library does not collect institutional or organizational records, there is considerable documentation of the RTO/VTO itself, and the archive of the library. There is also the collected archive of theater veterans associated with the M.G. Savina Leningrad Home of Stage Veterans. Of particular importance are many fonds of personal papers of theater personalities, such as K.S. Stanislavskii (175 units), V.E. Meyerhold (Meierkhol'd) (ca. 120 units), and the actor and leader of the Jewish theater S.M. Mikhoels (ca. 100 units). There are also collected papers of the Russian actors M.I. Tsarev and M.M. Shtraukh, and the theater director A.Ia. Tairov and his wife, the actress A.G. Koonen. There are also a significant number of fonds of personal papers of Russian émigrés, some of which contain copies of materials held abroad. The papers of the actor and director M.A. (Mikhail Aleksandrovich) Chekhov (1891–1955), who is buried in Hollywood, include copies of his letters, the originals of which remain abroad. There are also fonds for the ballet master and dancer M.M. (Mikhail Mikhailovich) Mordkin (1990–1955), active in Lithuania and then New York, and some papers of the historian and political activist A.A. Kizevetter (1866–1933), who in emigration was a professor in Prague. There is a very extensive collection of photographs, with a negative archive of over 50,000. This includes the recently acquired photographic archive of the actor Andrei (A.A.) Mironov. Working conditions: Some of the recently received and émigré fonds have not been arranged, and hence are not readily accessible. Reference facilities: Opisi (inventories) are available for processed fonds. |
