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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-200Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga (GMI SPb)Rukopisno-dokumental'nyi fond [Manuscript-Documentary Fond] Address: Petrovskaia kurtina Petropavlovskoi kreposti (right side) Telephone: +7 812 498-07-53 Website: http://www.spbmuseum.ru/funds/244/ Holdings Total: 1700–to present The fond retains documents on the history of St. Petersburg from the time of Peter the Great to the present. Materials dating from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century include a petition from foreign sailors to Peter the Great asking for payment for their service to Russia (1700); documents from the papers of the architect Carlo (K.I.) Rossi, including a letter sent to him by the President of the Academy of Arts, A.N. Olenin; and a collection of documents from members of the Russian revolutionary movement who were imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress (N.M. Astyrev, N.P. Vladimirov, P.N. Lepeshinskii, and V.P. Nogin, among others). Among materials from the St. Petersburg Office of Decency (S.-Peterburgskaia uprava blagochiniia) there are documents on the apportionment of plots of land for building purposes. Documents from the Soviet period, which have been arranged in subject-related collections, include documentary materials of well-known citizens, such as the scholars G.O. Graftio, S.V. Lebedev, and L.A. Orbeli; and the writers V.B. Azarov, A.A. Prokof'ev, M.L. Slonimskii, and V.V. Vishnevskii. The collection on the history of World War II contains documents pertaining to the defense and siege of Leningrad, including a notebook written during the siege by an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Tania Savicheva; letters from frontline defenders of the city to their families; documents relating to the partisan movement in Leningrad Oblast; and awards of military decorations. The fond includes documents on the blockade that had been gathered for exhibits in the Museum of the Defense of Leningrad (abolished in 1952). Reference facilities: Work is underway to compile a subject catalogue. |
