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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-203

Last update of repository: 18 March 2020

Gosudarstvennyi istoriko-memorial'nyi muzei “Smol'nyi”


Holdings

Total: over 5,500 units, late 19th c.–1992
sound recordings—446; films—35; documentary fond—158 units (1917–1992); negatives—ca. 4, 500

The general Division of Fonds of the museum includes some documentary materials accessioned from the former Leningrad Branch of the V.I. Lenin Central Museum, which include the archival materials and scientific and technical documentation from eleven Lenin memorial museums in Leningrad. There are also memoirs and recollections of Lenin and his colleagues in the revolutionary movement, letters from revolutionaries and Communist Party veterans, films, photographs and sound recordings. The museum also holds documentation, including pictorial and photographic materials, relating to the Smol'nyi Institute for daughters of the nobility (Vospitatel'noe obshchestvo blagorodnykh devits), which had occupied the building before 1917.


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