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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-1Last update of repository: 24 June 2020Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii muzei (GIM)Otdel pis'mennykh istochnikov [Division of Written Sources] Address: Moscow Telephone: +7 495 692-64-31 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.shm.ru/kollektsii-i-muzeyn... Opening hours: RdngRm: WTh 10:00–17:00 (Summer [2019]: 27 June–4 September closed)Head: Aleksei Germanovich Iushko (tel. +7 495 692-47-35) Holdings Total: ca. 15,000,000 units; 16th–20th cc. (some documents of 12th, 14th, 15th cc.) institutional fonds—1; personal fonds—365; charters and decrees—6 fonds; collections—94; autograph collections—3 fonds The division holds especially important archival materials relating to literature, science, and culture starting with late seventeenth-century Russia. There are fonds of a series of state, church and public organizations and institutions of the prerevolutionary and Soviet periods. These include records of the Sarskaia and Podonskaia Eparchy from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; of scholarly societies such as the Moscow Numismatic Society and the Moscow Archeological Society; and of tutelary institutions like the Moscow Foundling Home (Moskovskii vospitatel'nyi dom). The postrevolutionary period is represented here by the records of the Museum Division of the Main Scientific Administration of the People’s Commissariat of Education RSFSR (Muzeinyi otdel Glavnauki Narkomprosa RSFSR) (1918–1944) and a collection of documents from the Moscow Section of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK, 1919–1937). By far the most significant holdings in this division are the extensive fonds of personal papers. Recently declassified is an extensive collection of documents of the Romanov family, with materials from all the Russian emperors and many members of the imperial family starting with Peter I; of particular interest is the original imperial documentation from the museum in Belgrade honoring Nicholas II, which was brought to Moscow after World War II. There are documents and papers from many of the well-known gentry families who played an important part in the political, economic, and cultural life of prerevolutionary Russia, including a very large group of family landed-estate records from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and personal papers of some of the richest land and mine owners in Russia. The Vorontsov, Golitsyn, Demidov, Kurakin, Lazarev, and Sheremetev families are all represented here, as are some of the lesser landed gentry in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, like A.T. Bolotov and D.I. Maslov, along with the Bereznikov, Mukhanov, Makerovskii, and Oshanin families. There are papers of representative rich industrial and commercial bourgeoisie, such as the Botkin, Guchkov, Shishkin, and Zhuravlev families, along with those of P.A. Buryshkin and K.V. Prokhorov, among others. This division also holds the personal papers of some of the highest ranking civil servants and other persons who were prominent in government, politics, and the military in prerevolutionary Russia, such as F.I. Soimonov, A.I. and D.G. Bibikov, P.A. and V.A. Zubov, A.A. Arakcheev, N.N. Novosil'tsev, and V.A. Maklakov, among others. The Maklakov papers are among those enriched by RZIA holdings acquired from Prague after World War II, and include documentation from the Liberal Beseda Circle (1899–1905). Personal papers of major public figures and members of the cultural elite are also widely represented. These include materials of the Decembrists (D.I. Zavalishin, N.I. and A.I. Turgenev, and M.I. Murav'ev-Apostol); the Slavophiles (A.S. Khomiakov and M.D. Raevskii); and historians such as V.N. Tatishchev, M.M. Shcherbatov, T.N. Granovskii, and D.I. Ilovaiskii. The division also contains several large private collections of historical sources and autographs collected during the nineteenth century with documents of varied provenance. These include documentation of Russian central and provincial institutions and church authorities; collections on the history of the army, navy, and foreign policy; a collection from many sources on the Napoleonic Invasion of 1812 (Patriotic War), with original documents of Napoleon and his entourage; Masonic manuscripts; documents pertaining to the history of the theater, literature, and architecture; along with correspondence and autographs of numerous famous people. Many of these collections were separated out of the major named collections that were acquired by the division together with the personal papers of their collectors. Among such collections that were broken up were those of A.I. Bariatinskii, E.V. Barsov, P.I. Shchukin, I.A. Vakhrameev, and I.E. Zabelin, along with those of the Chertkov and Uvarov families. Thematic collections formed in the division are extremely varied, including collections of charters of privilege (or letters patent—zhalovannye gramoty), appointment certificates to particular bureaucratic ranks (patenty na chin), resignation documents, decrees and warrants (ukazy and reskripty), autographs of prominent figures, codices of particularly types, and diaries and memoirs. Some of the thematic collections preserved in the division were collected by other museums—the Museum of Old Moscow, the Military History Museum, the Museum of the 1840s, the Solovetskii Museum, fourteenth-century materials from the Opta Hermitage (Optina pustyn') Museum, and a variety of materials from the former State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK). Others were collected on special historical daily-life expeditions organized by the Historical Museum since 1925. There are several collections of documents from the Soviet period. The October Revolution Collection includes documents issued by the Soviets (until mid-October 1918), local Bolshevik organizations, Red Guard and local revolutionary committees, as well as letters from private citizens and notes and memoirs of participants in the October Revolution. There are also official documents from the Provisional Government, materials from the various political parties and social organizations, and personal documents of G.E. L'vov. Documents pertaining to the Second World War form a special collection, which includes materials from military commissariats, military units and formations on active service, the home guard, and documents from some plants and factories in the capital during the Battle of Moscow. Here too are to be found the archives of the frontline press and military correspondents, as well as personal papers and memoirs of participants in the war. Documents relating to the postwar period, which were gathered on historical expeditions to factories in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kolomna, Sormovo, and in Siberia, as well as in former Soviet Baltic republics and Central Asia, include personal papers of exemplary workers together with their awards, photographs, placards, and posters. Working conditions: The division has a reading room: https://shm.ru/issledovatelyam/nauchn.... Reference facilities: Surveys are available for all the fonds in the Division of Written Sources that have been systematically arranged, or, if the fond is small, there is an historical report with a survey of the documents contained therein. Opisi are available for all fonds. There are also name, geographic, subject, thematic, and inventory card catalogues. A database is being developed for description of seventeenth-century documents. Library facilities: There is a reference library with open access located in the reading room. Copy facilities: Scan copies may be ordered and obtained through the Foreign department of the museum by e-mail: [email protected]. |
